TY - BOOK AU - Watt,Peter TI - The queen's captain T2 - Colonial series SN - 9781760555344 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2020/// CY - Sydney, New South Wales PB - Pan Macmillan Australia KW - Steele, Ian, KW - Missionary Ridge, Battle of, Tenn., 1863 KW - Fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - Waikato War, N.Z., 1863-1865 KW - Maori (New Zealand people) KW - New Zealand KW - Waitako KW - History KW - United States KW - Civil War, 1861-1865 KW - India KW - British occupation, 1765-1947 KW - 1843-1876 KW - Chattanooga, Battle of, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1863 KW - Impersonation KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Soldiers KW - Australian KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - War fiction N1 - "From India to America and New Zealand... action, intrigue and family drama."--Cover N2 - In October 1863, Ian Steele, having taken on the identity of Captain Samuel Forbes, is fighting the Pashtun on the north-west frontier in India. Half a world away, the real Samuel Forbes is a lieutenant in the 3rd New York Volunteers and is facing the Confederates at the Battle of Mission Ridge in Tennessee. Neither is aware their lives will change beyond recognition in the year to come. In London, Ella, the love of Ian's life, is unhappily married to Count Nikolai Kasatkin. As their relationship sours further, she tries to reclaim the son she and Ian share, but Nikolai makes a move that sees the boy sent far from Ella's reach. As 1864 dawns, Ian is posted to the battlefields of the Waikato in New Zealand, where he comes face to face with an old nemesis. As the ten-year agreement between Steele and Forbes nears its end, their foe is desperate to catch them out and cruel all their hopes for the future ER -