First Looks

She married the man everyone wanted. Now someone is listening to every word they say.

Anny Abrahams has been Mrs Masood James for one day when the clock on the kitchen dresser starts to tick wrong.

The wedding was a fairytale. The aftermath is a nightmare: a bug in the wall, a letter that says the sister Masood buried is alive, and a man he trusted with his life who may have been lying for twenty years. Cape Town is burning on the mountain. Every phone is a risk. Every kiss might have an audience.

So they learn to love in whispers, in notes on receipts, in the dark, with the safe words they've promised each other and the trust that is all they can still be sure of.

He's dominant, devoted and used to carrying everything alone. She's done being protected. The closer they get to the truth about Soraya, the more it costs them: a missing key, a woman in a green coat, a hospital corridor, a name nobody was meant to say aloud.

And Anny has a secret of her own, small and brand new and impossible to hide for much longer.

First Looks is the second book in the Last Looks series: a steamy, dark-edged contemporary romance set in Bo-Kaap, Rondebosch and Joburg, with a dominant hero, a heroine who takes her power back, and a twist you won't see coming. It ends on a cliffhanger.

Best read after Last Looks. Contains explicit sexual content and adult themes; 18+.