What does a pretty Afrikaans wife in the 1950s do when the walls start closing in? When her husband is an embittered Ben Schoeman-supporter who struggles with an asthma pump, and her father sees communists and Catholics behind every bush.

From the author of ‘Derailed’.
Paul Breidbart is the actuary; he and his wife, Joanna, want nothing more than to have a child. They have been trying to conceive for years, without success. When they open their hearts to the possibility of adoption they find that the quickest way to be matched with a child is to travel to Colombia. Travel — and life — in Colombia is fraught with danger, yet everything happens on schedule. They receive a baby girl who is perfect in every way. The adoption proceeds without any problem. That is, until the Breidbarts leave their new infant daughter alone for a few hours with their new nanny.

“J” is for Jaffe: Wendell Jaffe, dead these past five years. Or so it seemed until his former insurance agent spotted him in the bar of a dusty little resort halfway between Cabo San Lucas and La Paz.

Why was Billy Blake, a homeless alcoholic, found dead from starvation in one of the richest areas in one of the richest capitals in the world? Six months on, Amanda Powell is eager to talk to journalist, Michael Deacon. But Deacon’s interest in Blake has more to do with his own past.

He is Oliver Barett IV, a rich jock from a stuffy WASP family on his way to a Harvard degree and a career in law.
She is Jenny Cavilleri, a wisecracking working-class beauty studying music at Radcliffe.
Opposites in nearly every way, Oliver and Jenny immediately attract, sharing a love that defies everything … yet will end too soon. Here is a love that will linger in your heart now and forever.

The name the beleaguered inhabitants give to their ‘sink’ estate. A no-man’s land of single mothers and fatherless children- where angry, alienated youth controls the streets.
Into this battlefield comes Sophie Morrison, a young doctor visiting a patient in Acid Row. little does she know that she is entering the home of a known paedophile…and with reports circulating that a tormented child called Amy has disappeared, the vigilantes are out in force…

John Grisham’s _A Painted House” describes, in his own words, the life of 7 year old Luke Chandler, an Arkansas farm boy growing up in the midst of the cotton fields. Luke is full of curiosity and mischief, as he witnesses life around him, causing him to make very adult decisions about keeping secrets. You will fall in love with the characters. This book will make you laugh and make you cry.

Twelve hours after Kate Sumner’s broken body is washed up on a deserted beach on the south coast of England, her traumatized three-year-old daughter is discovered twenty miles awa walking the streets of Poole, alone. The police are puzzled.
Why weren’t mother and daughter together? Why was Kate killed and her daughter allowed to live? More curiously, why had Kate boarded a boat – apparently willingly – when she was scared stiff of drowning at sea? Who had tempted her to her death?

‘I wonder if I should keep these diaries under lock and key. Jenny Spede has disturbed them again…What does she make, I wonder, of an old woman, deformed by arthritis, stripping naked for a young man? The pills worry me more. Ten is such a round number to be missing…’

My mother thinks I’m a delicate Southern flower. But believe me, Lexie Chandler’s not someone to take lightly. I’m a gemologist, a karate black belt, and can accurately fire any gun out there. Plus, I won’t back down…ever! And right now, my sights are set on the Heart of Burma, a magnificent, blood-red ruby that’s currently in the hands of a rebel gunrunner holed up in the tiger-infested Burmese jungle.