African Saga

Catch my gaze means your eyes better always find mine.

In the early 60s, Tayo Ajayi sails to England from Nigeria to take up a scholarship at Oxford University. There he discovers a whole generation high on visions of a new and better world. He meets Vanessa Richardson, the beautiful daughter of a former colonial officer. Their story, which spans four decades, is a bittersweet tale of a brave but doomed affair and the universal desire to fall truly, madly, and deeply in love.

The Texas rancher and Navy SEAL who fathered Bristol Lockett's son died a hero's death...or so she was told. Yet when Laramie "Coop" Cooper strolls into her exhibit at an art gallery three years later, he's very much alive - and still making her pulse zing. The all-consuming chemistry between them is as undeniable now as it was then, but Bristol won't risk her heart - or their son's. Little does Bristol know he's determined to win over his unexpected family at any cost!

In the wilderness of discovering who you are and how you fit into the world, the most important lesson you'll learn is whether you're part of the pack or one of the prey.

A poem about how a wolf tricked a shepherd and taught him a valuable life lesson.

As the 1950s' Mau Mau war breaks out in the foothills of Mt. Kenya, Wambũi, a 14-year-old girl, leaves her besieged village to join a prestigious boarding school, a half day’s journey away by train. There, she becomes aware of her extraordinary mathematical abilities discovered by her teacher Eileen Atwood. Initially, Wambũi views Eileen’s attentions with suspicion and hostility, but over time, the two grow close and form a lifelong friendship.

Es ist so viel passiert, auch so viel Schreckliches, dass ich gar nicht weiß, wo ich anfangen soll. Vielleicht sollte ich noch über meine Flucht berichten? Vorher hatte ich ja über meine Pläne nichts aufgeschrieben, vorsichtshalber, falls jemand es gefunden und gelesen hätte. Ich habe mich an dem Tag, an dem John Meller Tante Agnes nach Lomolé zum Schiff bringen sollte, morgens sehr früh aus dem Haus geschlichen und bin bis zum Flugplatz in Kalila gelaufen. Es war ein wunderschöner Morgen auf Arkamona, die Insel lag noch in leichtem Dunst, es war warm, aber noch nicht heiß.

Amaryllis Price, once a relationship destroyer and professional husband stealer, has turned her life around. She's made a vow to live right and walk the straight and narrow, but Amaryllis finds herself at a crossroads when her past catches up with her. She could never resist Charles Walker, and when he reappears in her life, he's even sexier than she remembered. Will she remain celibate and resist the wiles of the devil?

Timbuktu, western Africa, 1706. Folashade, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a professor of linguistics, is sent south with her older sisters, Bibi and Adaeze, to endure the painful ceremony that a girl on the cusp of womanhood is expected to. In Djenné, on the banks of the Niger, the sisters’ fate and that of their fellow Bambara are changed forever when they’re kidnapped, marched toward grueling indignities on Gorée Island, and eventually hauled aboard an English slaver bound for the Americas.