Megan Hall

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Sudan for the conflict with the Mahdi. His friends and fiancée send him four white feathers as symbols of what they view as his cowardice. To redeem his honor, he disguises himself as an Arab and secretly saves their lives.

In the still dawn hush of a May morn two lovers push out to sea on a weather-beaten fishing trawler off the coast of Cornwall to wait out the repercussions of an illicit love affair whilst at their feet, slumped and bloodied in the boat's wheelhouse a dying body stirs anew.