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'There is a thin veil', that's what Mama used to say, 'like the rarest of silk, separating the seen from the unseen, the living from the dead, us from our ancestors.' And, no matter what form this veil takes, it is there all the same, like mist on a lake at dawn or the wafting of holy smoke in dem people's church. All you need do is hold on to it, and get to turnin' some good outta all that bad. This story is testimony to that kind of faith. A story of becoming. One woman's journey from the edges of Empire to the mother country and back again. A story of struggle, of loss, of nation-...

A broken woman forced to reinvent a life and struggling to afford it. A sick, gifted man in need of care, fascinated by the unique possibilities of a blossoming friendship with an unexpected stranger. The many seasons of life, chiselled by past experience, moulded by circumstance amid tides of memory. While Beth has been to hell and back wrestling with her life, nothing seems to disrupt Jorge’s equanimity. **Dear reader: This is an adult fictional love story, presented as a fictional tale, containing difficult themes of trauma and maltreatment which the flawed protagonists are grappling ...

Detective Luis Richter longs to go places, and become ‘somebody’. But lately he’s being doing not much of either. Between meaningless misdemeanors and boring office gossip, his hometown of Munich is hardly the hub of criminal activity. Until one day, Luis’s humdrum life is turned upside-down when an international case involving big money and deadly intent lands in his lap, the main victim in all this a wealthy heiress by the name of Joy Evans. In taking over the reins of her late father’s extensive business interests, Joy Evans never expected to wind-up a witness to a murder. As ...