Whiplash is a gut wrenching story of a Muizenberg Sex worker, Tess who Pops painkillers by the handful and sells her body to strangers. When a condom breaks, Tess's life swings one eighty degrees. She gives up her drugs until she can get to an abortion clinic. Her cold turkey opens up a window in her mind, whipping Tess into a shattering understanding of how she got here. Tess's quirky humour, raw honesty and deep love of beauty lead her to find redemption in astonishing places. This book has a huge heart, like Tess, revealing that there is something in everyone that cannot be touched. Not by human hands. Not ever.

Malachi is recruited by a powerful pharmaceutical company to work at their top-secret facility off the African coast. Frasier Pharmaceuticals are assured of his discretion, as his tongue was cut out in an attack by genocidaires. At their organ farming operation, they can offer him more than financial reward - Malachi will get a new tongue. He simply has to act as carer and jail-keeper to the hardened criminals who are used as subjects. But are the prisoner-donors all as bad as the company says?