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Signed Copies of War Serenade and Zebra

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Printable Untamed South African Cook Book and Coloring Book

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Printable Untamed South African Cook Book

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A Bag of Dutchy's Gourmet Biltong

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Digital Copy of War Serenade

Digital Copy of Zebra

Printable Untamed South African Cook Book

Printable Untamed South African Coloring Book

Deliciously Untamed South African Cook Book & Colorfully Untamed Coloring Book

Print a piece of South Africa for yourself!

Jill Wallace has compiled authentic South African recipes for you to relish and coloring pages for your diversion. Add vivid color to lions and elephants while you devour your own homemade koeksisters enjoyed by Jock and Papin in Zebra, or a slice of melktert as seen in War Serenade!

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Zebra

Friends by Fate. Enemies by Destiny.

A young white boy and a Zulu teen grow up together, building an extraordinary friendship as they explore the rugged Drakensberg mountains around a remote South African hotel during the apartheid era.

Jock and Papin forge an indelible bond while learning to love and appreciate each other’s cultures. Despite whispers from intolerant guests, the boys are oblivious to the consequences of their friendship. “There goes the zebra,” guests remark, claiming they can’t tell where the white boy ends and the black boy begins.

But the boys’ friendship is strong enough to conquer all—until society’s impossible expectations wrench them apart, leaving bitter disappointment and soul-deep wounds that will not heal.

A decade later, these long-lost friends converge on opposite sides of a harrowing battlefield, one a reluctant soldier, the other a passionate freedom fighter. Their intimate knowledge of the other’s way of life could be the very tools that save them…or destroy them. And an unimaginable choice will put Jock and Papin’s once unbreakable bond to the ultimate test.

Jill Wallace, author of the multi-award-winning World War II novel War Serenade, brings together a fascinating coming-of-age story with a compelling tale of human connection in Zebra.

War Serenade

Divided by War. United by Music. Endangered by Passion.

When bon vivant Italian opera star-turned-pilot Pietro is shot down during World War II, he nearly loses his life. Worse, he’s lost his passion for music and is close to losing his sanity in a soul-crushing prisoner-of-war camp in South Africa when he meets Iris. He has a vision of a love worth dying for—worth living for—and realizes he must find his voice if he ever hopes to find her again.

Iris’s dreams are at stake when she meets Pietro. All she wants is for her brother to come home alive from the war and to fulfill her destiny as a costume designer in Hollywood. But this spirited redhead’s life turns upside down as her eyes meet Pietro’s through the cage of his prison. The world may be at stake, but so is her heart.

Their secretive and daring courtship raises the suspicions of the bully who runs the camp, a scarred and damaged tyrant who once dated Iris. Consummating the couple’s almost mystical connection will mean crossing the barbed wire, risking the deadly charge of treason and confronting their worst fears.

Inspired by a true story, War Serenade is compelling, heart-wrenching, sometimes funny and always dramatic as it celebrates the endurance of the human spirit, the evolution of rich friendships, and love’s triumph against impossible odds.