First published 2010
Ella de Vries spins across the stage with the Royal Ballet, her dark eyes catching the light. When she meets Donny McLeod, a wild rebel who trusts nothing and no one, her ordered world tilts. The year is 1970, and together they drift into a house full of political radicals plotting against the system. Special Branch agents watch from the shadows. Violence erupts, sending Ella fleeing to Brazil and scattering Donny to the winds. Three decades pass. Ella returns to find London changed, the economy crashing, and new kinds of terrorists walking the streets. Her old housemate Hector wrestles with whether to help Islamic extremists bomb a bank. Then Donny walks back into her life. Ella becomes the spark that ignites a chain of events racing toward a conclusion no one sees coming. Love proves as dangerous as any revolution.
Genres: 20th-century, 21st-century, activism, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, fast-paced, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Brazil, London
Period: 1970, 2000s
408 pages · Paperback · Telegram Books
Content warnings: violence