“Thrums with tension that ratchets up with every new revelation.” Bev Robitai, author of Sunstrike
A perfect world is a controlled one.
Thirty years ago, a group of idealists built Perfectville—an isolated town with no crime, no competition, and no chaos. A generation was raised in safety, free to play before “paying their debt.”
Tisha Moore is the flaw in the system. A single mother of twins, she broke the rules—and now lives under constant scrutiny in a world designed to have none.
She dreams of escape. But Perfectville offers her children something the Outside never could: safety.
When a violent gang targets her family and forces her into a criminal network operating inside the town, Tisha becomes a threat to the very system keeping her children safe. Undercover agent Rafe Portman is sent to stop her—by gaining her trust, exposing her secrets, and bringing her down.
As pressure builds and a new generation begins to push back against the rules, Tisha faces an impossible choice: protect the system that keeps thousands safe, or destroy it and risk losing her children to the chaos beyond its walls.
Yvonne Walus writes crime fiction set in South Africa because she believes it’s a misunderstood country. South Africa means a lot of things to a lot of people: lions in long yellow grass, diamond mines, apartheid, Nelson Mandela, rugby. All of those images are right, yet none of them - according to Yvonne - are representative of the country or its people. None of them describe what it’s like to live in South Africa, both in the 1980s and today. Yvonne would like her readers to smell the red dust of the continent and to fall in love with Africa the way she did when she first set foot there as a teenager. Through her books, Yvonne shows that South African people, despite the recent history of discrimination, are no different to any other people. Not worse, not better. Just people.