The Cape Town Series · Book 5
The Crossing
Senator Diana Holloway, 56, three-term US Senator. Robben Island & Cape Town.
Twelve days. Five ferry crossings. The Xhosa political prisoner-turned-scholar she came to interview asked the only question her staff had never put on a card.
About the book
- Series
Book 5 of six in the Cape Town Series by Carly Lewis. Stands alone, and rewards reading after the first four.
- Heroine
Senator Diana Holloway, 56, three-term US Senator.
- Setting
Robben Island & Cape Town, in and around Cape Town, South Africa. Every heroine in the series finds her way to the same sage-green door in Woodstock, where Miriam Sobukwe keeps rooibos on the stove.
- Genre
Book-club women's fiction with a romance spine. It ends well, as every book in the series does.
- Heat
Warm, not explicit.
- Availability
Kindle edition 3 November 2026 · Paperback and hardcover available now. On Kindle Unlimited from release day, and in paperback and hardcover on Amazon.
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