Loyiso Macdonald

A married professor is pulled into a passionate affair with a younger man that uncovers a path of tragedy and betrayal from those closest to her.

Through a year of 30th birthdays, four best friends navigate relationships, heartbreak and a shocking situation that threatens to tear them apart.

This sequel to "Happiness is a Four-Letter Word" finds Zaza, Princess and Zim living new chapters of their lives amid loss, family grudges and new love.

The true story of an operation which was a revolution, not only for the world of medicine. Frankfurt 1967. A young doctor called Lisa Scheel is trying to get a foothold in the male-dominated world of transplant surgery. But after she is passed over by her main professor in favour of a male applicant, on the spur of the moment Lisa heads off to Cape Town. Here, she starts work for Dr. Barnaard, who, like his colleagues in Frankfurt, is planning a heart transplantation. Together with the surgeon Hamilton Naki, who due to apartheid can only join the team secretly, Lisa is a major contributor to the first heart transplant in history.

The self-appointed woman representative, Grace, wants nothing but the truth. After moving in with her unemployed boyfriend in her house and providing him with all his daily needs, she hopes she is building her future husband. When she catches him cheating she feels betrayed and heartbroken. She then goes out for drinks to de-stress. Grace meets Thabo who is a player. Grace finds out that Thabo has a partner after a night of passion and loses it over the fact that Thabo lied to her. Thabo's lies lead him to being kidnapped and he cannot leave until he understands Grace's anger. Will he escape and go back to his partner? Will Grace face the consequences of her actions?