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The Awakening of Paola Dante: Book 1 of the Lady Limbo trilogy

9781960803573

There is a place that is not Heaven or Hell, its name is Limbo…


One Friday evening Daniel de Luc, an elusive crime writer, disappears from his Cape Town apartment. His wife Paola, beyond worried after days of hearing nothing, is contacted by an eccentric woman who claims she was Daniel’s psychotherapist, though she knew him as “Gabriel,” and warns Paola not to look for him.


Like any good, and desperate, wife, Paola ignores the warning and embarks on a full-blown search, hiring a private detective. She soon learns that her husband was involved in the shadowy world of the international sex trade, where well-heeled women pay men to become the anonymous fathers of their children. As her neat, controlled existence is turned inside out, Paola struggles to maintain her sanity, all while trying to outwit Daniel’s enemies and stay alive.


A fast-paced thriller, shifting between Cape Town’s beaches and Paris city streets, blending realism with the fantastic, pitting love against the attraction of sexual adventure. How far with Paola go to find her husband?

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Pub Date:
Sept. 2026
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Consuelo Roland
Consuelo Roland

Consuelo Roland left the information technology business to complete an MA Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Cape Town. Her debut novel, The Good Cemetery Guide, was short-listed for the Sunday Times Fiction Prize. It was also selected via an e-mail poll of readers as one of 30 Centre for the Book's "must read" South African Books for 2007. She lives with her husband and son and a menagerie of pets.

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