A Samson

Nothing worth having comes free. Not even that which fate brings together. Arne had nothing more on his mind than tending to the family ranch that had been passed down for generations. Nothing until the golden-haired beauty almost ends his life with a single shot. What does he do with the poacher? He takes her home, of course. Jinn is running for her life when she finds an old, abandoned shack in the middle of nowhere. Food becomes a top priority until she tries to shoot a deer only to find herself locked in a battle of wills with the cowboy she almost shot. He doesn't understand, though, that his life is now in danger. She's running from a very dangerous man who has sworn to catch her. If she doesn't keep running, she won't be the only one he'll teach a lesson. He'll do whatever it takes to protect her, even if it means becoming more than she bargains for.

Love knows no boundaries. Not time, nor distance, nor even your fate as a wolf. Dane remembers the first time he saw her. She was in his older brother's grade school class, but he knew then she was his. He never lost sight of this truth. Even when she moved away and he grew up. Now she's back in town and all bets are off. He might get his mate after all if he can just protect her from the dark presence stalking her every move. Tani is back in her small town in Oklahoma working at her old high school job. The last thing she is looking for is romance. Except, the cute boy who used to smile at her over the counter is now all grown up and he is a sight to behold. He doesn't need the headache that is the only thing she can offer. She's not just pregnant with another man's baby, but now she has yet a third man stalking her. That doesn't seem to matter to Dane. She's all he ever wanted and he plans to get what he wants.

Divided Country explains how segregation and apartheid became entrenched in a unique way in cricket in South Africa between 1915 and the 1950s. While the rest of the cricket world increasingly rubbed out old dividing lines, South Africa reinforced them until seven different South Africas existed at the same time in cricket. Each of them claimed the title ‘South Africa’ and ‘national’. Each ran leagues and provincial competitions and chose national teams. This book continues the task started by Cricket and Conquest (2017), which re-wrote the foundational narratives of cricket in southern Africa between 1795 and 1914. One reviewer noted it was ‘simply the finest book ever written about sport in South Africa’. Another that it had the effect of ‘bowling over prevailing histories, de-colonising existing narratives of the game … [and] throwing all that came before into a spin’ so that ‘what was will never be the same’. Divided Country similarly attempts to paint an entirely new picture of cricket in South Africa during a crucial and complex period. It completely inverts previous whites-only general histories of cricket, showing that the game has an infinitely richer history than has been recorded to date. Without knowing how apartheid in cricket unfolded one cannot even begin to understand the journey the country has travelled since the 1950s, and how, slowly, painstakingly, the cricket unity we take for granted today was struggled for and constructed. This will be the explosive theme of Volume 3 of this series.