The hills of Singapore
Subtitle: a landscape of loss, longing, and love
By: Dawn Farnham
Publisher: Monsoon
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9789810854331
Description: Young, beautiful and wealthy, widow Charlotte Macleod leaves Batavia in the 1850s and returns to Singapore for the English education of her two young sons. She is determined not to be drawn back into a secret affair with Zhen, the married Chinese merchant, triad-member and man she loves who is, unbeknownst to him, the father of her eldest son, Alex. Charlotte is convinced she can find happiness in a respectable marriage with the attractive but reticent Captain Maitland. But when murder and death strike, Singapore erupts in the violence of triad wars and Zhen's growing affection for Alex gives cause for alarm, she must make some hard decisions, for her children and herself.
Notes: Novel.

Sequel to The shallow seas.