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The Shallow Seas A Tale of Two Towns, Singapore and Batavia

9789814423601

The Shallow Seas A Tale of Two Towns, Singapore and Batavia

  • ISBN 13:

    9789814423601

  • ISBN 10:

    9814423602

  • Edition: 3rd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 04/07/2015
  • Publisher: Monsoon Books Pte Ltd
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Summary

In Volume 2 of The Straits Quartet, Charlotte Macleod is nineteen, pregnant, and alone in 1842. She is fleeing a scandalous liaison with her married Chinese lover, a liaison which would bring ruin on him, herself, and her brother, Robert, Singapore's Chief of Police. When Tigran Manouk, forty, and the richest merchant in Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, asks for her hand in marriage, the choice is no choice. Through loss and pain, Charlotte will find a way to make a life with a man she does not love in a town she does not understand. Until she returns to Singapore, to the town where the man she loves waits for her, to face the hardest decision of her life.

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