Bye Bye, Blackbird

Description for BYE BYE, BLACKBIRD by Patricia Wendorf:

They are destined to meet---the gentle, beautiful Eve Nevill and the striking, red-haired Sev Carew. His grandmother, they gypsy Meridiana, predicts it; it is these two who will finally heal the rift between herself and her girlhood friend, Eliza Greypaull.

It is in Taunton that Eve First sees Sev. He is a soldier, handsome in his walking-out uniform, on leave from Taunton barracks. Eve, pretty as a picture in her powder-blue costume, catches his eye. From that day on Sev never forgets her. Posted to India, haunted by her sweet-smiling face, he vows to return one day---to Taunton, and to Eve. Ignorant of his grandmother's prophecy, he doesn't know that the future has long ago been settled, the Romany pattern laid down...