#1 – The Burning Shore
France during the First World War. Centaine de Thiry falls in love with pilot Michael Courtney after he crashes near her family home. His death leaves her pregnant and without security as the fighting and destruction continue. The opening combines the Western Front and the First…
#2 – Power of the Sword
South Africa from 1931 into the Second World War. Centaine has become a successful businesswoman and must protect the interests of her acknowledged son Shasa and her secret son Manfred de la Rey during the Great Depression. The novel follows the growth of Afrikaner nationalism and…
#3 – Rage
South Africa from the late 1940s into the 1960s. Shasa Courtney enters government believing that influence inside the National Party may allow him to restrain its programme of racial separation. His half-brother Manfred de la Rey sees the same political movement as the means to secure…
#4 – A Time to Die
Southern Africa in the late 1980s. Sean Courtney works as a professional hunter and accepts a safari for Riccardo Monterro and his daughter Claudia. The journey crosses into Mozambique as the country’s civil war disrupts the expedition. The safari enters a Mozambique devastated by civil war,…
#5 – Golden Fox
London and southern Africa from 1969. Isabella Courtney begins a relationship with Ramón de Santiago y Machado without knowing that he is a Soviet-aligned intelligence officer. Pregnancy and emotional dependence give him leverage over both Isabella and her family. The espionage plot reflects the internationalisation of…