With the Portuguese terrorist group "Frelimo" getting in on the act and joining forces with ZANU, Kensington's own territorial infantry battalion, four Rhodesian Rifles, is re-deployed on the eastern Mozambique border. Iffor Meredith, now in command of the operations centre with a small support team, is glad to back in the war, leaving behind his daily complicated life as a farmer, and father to twins. His uncomplicated existence is about to be complicated by the arrival of the new casualty evacuation doctor, Grace, the Xhosa speaking Zulu, and a former lover. After a brief two night affair at the military hospital in Bindura, their paths go in different directions, until a failed mission in Zambia brings them together in dramatic circumstances. Grace is the third book in the Blue Watch trilogy, the others being Blue Watch and Alice. Each book showing the bloody civil war in Rhodesia from a different perspective.