From the world's #1 bestselling author, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for an easy job**,** but when he tries to protect an American woman, nothing is what it seems in a web of money, betrayal, and murder ...Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can't handle much mo...

"This is a brave rollercoaster ride that made me laugh and cry…By the end, I wanted to ride the rollercoaster again." —Claire Johnston, lead singer of Mango GrooveLife is hitting Emma Caine hard. Her husband is suffering from brain damage, she's lost her job, and soon may lose her home. Determined not to reach rock bottom, she draws inspiration from her misspent youth and opens a domination dungeon equipped with whips and chains. Before she can say "foreclosure," a wealth of rich me...

Love is hard for a South African dominatrix as she juggles clients, a new rival, and her own pleasure in this erotic romance by the author of Folly.Emma Caine's path to true love has been paved with secrets, passion, and the dungeon where it all started. Living a double life as a dutiful wife and a deviant dominatrix was going just fine until her new beau, Simon Nel, left for Dubai to open a new branch of his firm. Her sex life has gone promptly from deprav...

As P.I. Jade de Jong probes into the murder of a prosperous Johannesburg white and other recent car-jacking cases, a pattern begins to emerge, a pattern that goes back to her own father's murder and involves a vast and intricate series of crimes for profit.In Johannesburg prosperous whites live in gated communities; when they exit their cars to open the gates, car-jackings are common. But seldom is the victim killed, much less shot twice, like Annette Botha. Piet Botha, the husband...

When wealthy Pamela Jordaan hires PI Jade de Jong as a bodyguard after her husband Terrance disappears, Jade thinks keeping an eye on this anxious wife will be an easy way to earn some cash. But when a determined shooter nearly kills them both and Jade finds Terrance horrifically tortured and barely alive, she realizes that she has been drawn into a wicked game.At the same time, her relationship with police superintendent David Patel is on the rocks, and things only get more compli...

Arriving at a highway accident scene on a stormy night, Joburg paramedic Nick Kenyon finds only one victim: a critically injured young woman in the car’s passenger seat. In the ambulance, Nick agrees to take her phone and make an urgent call for her. What he doesn’t know is that the missing driver is part of a cold-blooded gang of robbers planning their biggest-ever heist. And that his actions have just made him a target. As an ex-mercenary with a dubious past, Nick not only knows how to s...

Emma Caine is pushing forty and life is hitting her hard. Her husband has been brain damaged, she’s lost her job, and she might lose her home. Instead of giving up, Emma starts hitting back. Drawing on experiences from a misspent youth, she opens a domination dungeon in an outbuilding in her garden and sets herself up as a dominatrix. Whipping, torturing and abusing the wealthy slaves who soon start lining up for her services is surprisingly easy for Emma, especially since she has no sexua...

When P.I. Jade de Jong invites Superintendent David Patel on a scuba diving holiday in St. Lucia, she hopes the time away will rebuild their conflicted relationship. Jade’s dreams are soon shattered when David calls off their affair, forcing her into the arms of environmentalist Craig Niewoudt. But the next morning, romantic issues are put aside when a scuba diving instructor, Amanda Bolton, is found brutally stabbed to death.Amanda is a most unlikely candidate for murder—a quiet a...

Book 4 in the PI Jade de Jong thriller series set in South AfricaAt first, the case appears to be one of simple misadventure. Sonet van Rensburg, a base jumper, falls to her death while attempting to parachute off a newly built sixty-five-story Sandton skyscraper. But Sonet's jumping partner Chris Theron insists that this was no accident, and he hires private investigator Jade de Jong to uncover the truth.Glad of the distraction from her conflicted and seem...

Emma Caine never thought true love would be like this. With the wickedly appealing Simon more than 6000 kilometres away, she’s feeling sexually deprived – despite the thriving domination dungeon she runs from her back garden.It’s business as usual for Emma and the wealthy slaves who come to her to be tortured and tantalised. But while Simon is burying himself in work, a rival dominatrix thinks Emma is stealing her clients and she’s doing her best to put Emma out of business.

Relentless South African private investigator Jade de Jong tracks a saboteur in a race to prevent a nuclear disaster in Jassy Mackenzie’s new, pulse-pounding thriller.Despite her checkered history with law enforcement, Johannesburg private investigator Jade de Jong is attempting to operate on the right side of the law, confining herself to low-profile cases. But her remarkably attractive new employer, Ryan Gillespie, has tasked her with finding a missing security o...

Money. Betrayal. Murder.That's a Private conversation.Hired to protect a visiting American woman, Private Johannesburg's Joey Montague is hoping for a routine job looking after a nervous tourist. After the apparent suicide of his business partner, he can't handle much more. But this case is not what it seems--and neither is his partner's death.BookShotsLIGHTNING-FAST STORIES BY JAMES PATTERSON