Karen Jeynes

When Othmane Zolati left El Jadida, Morocco at twenty years old, he had never been anywhere. 1398 days and 24 countries later, he returned home a changed man.

Adri Joubert has been the cool, calm, reassuring face and voice of the evening news for two decades. But then her husband is murdered, and her life becomes news as a national crisis shakes the country. She is forced to put aside her personal trauma to guide viewers through the state of emergency from behind a red-hot news desk.

Tannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

When 25 year old English party-girl Nina Morgan wakes up naked on a beach in Cape Town, South Africa, about 6000 miles from home and with all of her stuff missing, it's clear things haven't gone to plan.

Secrets and lies come to light when Matilda, the wife of a mining magnate, becomes embroiled in a bitter tussle over fortune and family succession.