About the book: 1999 / The novel takes place at the end of the 18th - beginning of the 19th centuries in Spanish Texas, then an overseas province of Spain. The main character of the novel, a Spanish woman, Sabrina, meets a seventeen-year-old Brett Dangermond, when she was only... seven years old. The next meeting of the heroes occurred when Sabrina was already eighteen. It would seem that nothing prevents two loving hearts from uniting. Moreover, Don Alejandro, Sabrina’s father, a rich planter, simply dreams of this marriage. But.. All the forces of evil seem to have united to prevent the happiness of young people…