As one of Nigeria's top writers, the author is concerned with the condition of his country. In this novel he tells, with humour, a human story set in the tragedy of the Biafran war. Fatima is fleeing the enemy planes with her young son, and through her unfolding drama, the reader sees what the war was really like through Biafran eyes.

Her comfortable life and her faith shattered when her husband of twenty years announces he is divorcing her to marry another woman, Pamela Thornton finds herself reevaluating her perspective on God and finding His love in spite of divorce.

James Pfeiffer lives in a world of ships and fishermen. Against the wishes of his parents, he follows the path of his family out onto the water. In the trawlers which plough the ocean off New England, James learns the dangers of life at sea.

In this steamy post-Civil War saga, the most stubborn woman headed for Texas meets her match in a mystery man with a dark past . . . and together, they must take down a common enemy. No woman on the wagon train trek to Texas was more alluring than Lydia Langston. No man was more rugged than Ross Coleman . . . and both were running from the past. Lydia once vowed that no man would ever take away her pride, while Ross Coleman has stayed true to his wife, who died giving birth to their son. But despite their challenges, Lydia and Ross now find themselves together, fighting the same enemy and the same dangerous emotions building inside them . . . and unable to stop the events that will eventually pit a man's deadly vengeance against the strength of a woman's love.

"Miranda," Rafael said through clenched teeth, "I beg of you, do not drive me too far!" Rafael was annoyed. No woman of his own nationality had looked at him in quite that way before. Had she no respect—this girl from England! Did British women consider themselves the equals of men? But Miranda Lord wished she hadn't come to Mexico or become involved with the Cueras family. Only then, of course, she wouldn't have met Rafael!

A Brechtian drama with explicit political intent, it portrays the antipathy of a community for the strangers in their midst. The characters' collective views and attitudes on immigration and citizenship are no less shocking for being familiar.