The Shade Under The Mango Tree: A multicultural coming-of-age novel (Between Two Worlds Book 5)

Gold Medal, Contemporary Fiction, 2021 Global Book Awards (formerly New York City Book Awards) Finalist, 2021 SPR (Self Publishing Review) Book Awards Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, 2021 International Book Awards Finalist, 2022 Wishing Shelf Book Awards Luna hungers for adventure. Lucien has chosen a solitary professional life. She’s breaking away from her sheltered existence while he’s a widely-travelled but disillusioned young architect. Drawn together by an intimate journal that he found abandoned in a café, these two strangers begin to shed the shackles of their painful pasts. Lucien opens himself up to Luna. But she isn’t ready. She travels far, into a world steeped in ancient culture and the ravages of a deadly history. Can she survive unscathed? And will she be the soulmate he has been searching for? Book 5 in the series Between Two Worlds is an epistolary tale of courage, resilience, and the bonds that bring diverse people together. “A dazzling, globe-spanning tale … a captivating story”— Self-Publishing Review “Emotive, gripping and sweeping … a beautiful tale I will remember for a long time”— International Review of Books