Black Sun, Red Moon

A dying mother needs medicine… A desperate daughter with only one thing to sell… Kate’s Choice…

"Exquisitely written…an exciting and exactingly brutal slice of history…" — BookLife by Publishers Weekly

Japanese-occupied Java, 1945: Kate van Dam is struggling to survive the squalor and deprivation of an internment camp. Faced with a sick mother, little food and no medicines she accepts the dubious offer of "hostess work" at a Japanese army officers' club.... Japan is losing the war but in Java a revolution is brewing that threatens Europeans and Japanese alike. Bitter foes must become allies …of a kind. Inspired by actual events!

◆ Highlander Alun MacDonald has had his fill of the British Army but finds himself facing a new, unpredictable foe and having to trust his former enemies with his life.

◆ Lt Kenichi Ota steels himself to make a suicidal last stand but first he must ensure that the woman he loves is safe.

◆ War Correspondent Meg Graham is expecting to cover Japan's defeat.Instead she is pitched into a ruthless struggle for an empire unrestrained by rules of war.

◆ Lamban longs for independence for Indonesia. A chance encounter with an activist plunges him into a teeming, dangerous world of secret societies, plots and the whirlwind of revolution.