“I will tell you a story of two oceans. One lies towards the lands of Nubia, the other where the sun falls from the sky: the known and the unknown. Within their waters raged the blood of two brothers.”
—Djeliba Mamadou Kouyaté
The year is 1307. The Great Mansa of Mali has unexpectedly died, and the vast empire wavers with instability. It is Abubakari II who inherits the rule of Mali from his beloved father. As his Mandingo warriors storm the citadel of Djenné, the last obstacle in the Keita clan’s complete rule of the region, Abubakari reveals his childhood ambition of exploring the “Great Sea of Darkness” to the west. Viewed as madness by some, his dream severs the unity of the empire and sends the young ruler clashing with his least expected adversary…his brother.
Autumn 1940. Germany invades Britain. Newport is blitzed. Danny O’Shea’s house is bombed, his wife is killed. While taking his young son Adam to neutral Ireland, they witness an attack on a German convoy. The result is brutal.
Sometimes, vacations just don't turn out the way you hoped they would. An idyllic wilderness house boating get-a-way soon turns into a hellish nightmare...
Fleeing from a scorned past,Catherine Merit struggles with her failing medical practice and a rich man's obsession of her.Book Four in the Indignities Series
