Published by Beyond The Vale Publishing
Published date: May 2024
About the book
1818 and England is suffering after victory over Napoleon. Unemployment is high and many poor people are looking for a better life in the New World.
Twins John and Jack learn they were adopted on their father’s deathbed. Jack seeks passage to South Africa aboard the Weymouth in search of a better life and maybe some answers. They split their meagre belongings including a chunk of gold which they melt and split into two amulets.
Throughout one hundred and fifty years of South African and English history the amulet holds onto its secrets. Until in the 1960s when Joan Kroon inherits the amulet from her mother she is approached by Heir Hunters hoping to link her to a wealthy family estate.
A gripping tale of family ties through decades and thousands of miles. What secrets is the amulet keeping?
About the author
Rita Annandale is a born and bred South African. She lived during and after apartheid as a wife, mother and grandmother and has led an interesting life from beginnings on a barren piece of land to a peaceful life with dogs in Cape Town.
Rita has written all her life but has only recently embarked on writing on a bigger scale. She has her own following as a small-scale artist but found it easier to carry a pen and paper instead of oil paints and canvasses.
Being interested in people and history, she tells the stories that other people overlook.
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