Oasis of Night

Heartache Café: Books One and Two The Second World War touches Newfoundland in unprecedented ways, throwing spies and patriots together inside Jack Stolyes's Heartache Café. Heartache Café American expatriate Jack Stoyles embarks on a self-imposed exile to St. John's, Newfoundland. With good reason, Jack calls his place "Heartache Café." He's content—until Samual Halim walks into his life. When a constable goes missing, Jack finds himself caught between a manipulative woman, a corrupt cop, and a sabotaged work site. Valley of the Dead When Egyptian diplomat Samuel Halim enters Jack's Heartache Café, Jack's life changes forever. Then Sam disappears along with the code key to decipher a Nazi radio command that will set Rommel's troops in motion, leaving Jack with nothing but a fragmented phone call. In the teeming heat of Cairo—a city rife with romance, secrets, sex, and danger, where no one is who he seems and violent death waits around every shadowed corner—it's up to Jack to find the new love of his life and deliver the code that will change the course of history. But as Sam's secrets come to light, there's more at stake than the tenuous relationship forming between the two men.