My Novels
Explore my collection of stories, each crafted with passion and dedication to transport you to new worlds.
Die Sterkapel
In a town built on tradition, the most dangerous secrets are written in blood. When history student Andrew Buchanan arrives at Stellenbosch University, he expects lectures, oak-lined streets, and vineyard views. Instead, he hears whispers of a curse, a pattern of student deaths, dismissed as accidents. Teaming up with fellow outsider Linda Knight, he uncovers a chilling truth: each death forms a point on a five-pointed star etched over the town. The star’s center is Die Sterkapel, a secret society centuries old. Its final point now targets Andrew. To survive, he must infiltrate the circle of Deon Fourie, a charismatic preacher whose Bible group hides a predatory hunger for power and control. As friends turn up dead and the police look away, Andrew realizes the conspiracy is deeper than myth. It’s alive, protected by wealth and faith, and it will kill again to keep its secrets buried. To escape the star, he must expose it, even if it means becoming its final victim. A gripping academic thriller where history is a weapon, faith is a mask, and the truth is the most dangerous story of all.
Unhinged
Marco Ferrari, a successful South African of Italian descent, finds himself untethered after his divorce. Once immersed in the rituals of marriage and business, he is suddenly free, yet lonelier than ever. Searching for connection in a world that feels both absurd and ruthless, Marco turns to a dating app, only to discover a parade of surreal encounters: women who fascinate, unsettle, manipulate, and sometimes delight him. Alongside the humour and misadventures, Marco is forced to confront deeper truths. Each encounter, whether with a seductive artist, a personal trainer with hidden motives, or a woman who arrives with two enormous dogs, peels away another layer of his illusions. The novel balances biting satire with moments of profound vulnerability, as Marco navigates the thin line between desire and disillusionment. But Unhinged is not only about dating; it is about survival, memory, and rediscovery. The death of a close friend jolts Marco into reflection on mortality. Unexpected revelations, like learning he fathered a son years earlier, force him to reckon with guilt and privilege. Old relationships resurface, especially with Julia, a lifelong friend and sometime lover, whose wit and honesty anchor him amidst chaos. The narrative unfolds between Cape Town’s elite enclaves, dusty trails in the Tankwa desert, and the great cities of Europe and Russia, where Marco chases both love and meaning. At its heart, Unhinged is a meditation on the modern condition: the absurdity of curated identities, the contradictions of freedom, and the eternal longing for a love that feels both real and transcendent. Comic, tender, and philosophical, Unhinged is the portrait of a man stumbling through midlife, dismantling illusions, and discovering, sometimes painfully, that happiness lies not in possession but in presence.
The Road to Kang
In the silence of the Kalahari, the past begins to speak. Alone on his motorbike, Max rides into the vast emptiness of the desert, chasing freedom, or perhaps running from something he can’t quite name. But when a brutal crash leaves him stranded and broken, the boundary between life and death begins to blur. As the searing sun gives way to the cold grip of night, long-buried memories rise like mirages from the sand. In this haunted no-man’s-land, time unravels, and Max is forced to face the shadows he’s spent a lifetime outrunning. What begins as an adventure becomes a reckoning, a poetic descent into the soul’s most hidden chambers, where survival means more than just staying alive.