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Koba and Mannie have been released from jail. Their crime, loving each other across the Apartheid colour bar in southern Africa. Koba escapes and using her bush skills, finds her way across the semi-desert to her former tribal home. But adapting to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle after a decade away, has challenges. And her mortal enemy is on her trail. Meanwhile Mannie absconds during his parole and sets off on a sub-continental road trip to try and find his beloved Koba. But will his new comrades persuade him to join them across the border for training in deadly guerrilla warfare? And what will that mean for his future with Koba? Under tragic circumstances the lovers meet, but the danger they are in means they must make fast, heart-breaking choices. Kalahari Passage is an action-packed story of a search for identity and love. Readers will be spellbound by Koba’s world where an ancient culture dances, trances and lives in harmony with the land. |
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‘Hide!’ shouts her father. Then he breaks cover to draw the hunting party away across the blackened plain. The child sees them shoot him. And murder her mother. It’s the 1950s but Koba is a hunter-gatherer from an ancient living culture. She’s a survivor. She fends for herself in a hostile land. Now she’s in the greatest danger she’s ever faced: she’s falling for a white boy in Apartheid South Africa, where love across racial divides is brutally punished. Book 1 of this fast-paced saga introduces a unique character into romance-writing, offering readers a fascinating glimpse into a forgotten way of life and into recent black history. |
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