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    Embers at Midnight: Tempo, #2
    Harbour of Secrets: Tempo, #3
    Testing the Limits: Tempo, #1
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    Tempo Series

    By Kate Lance

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    About this series

    The war is over. The reckoning is not.

    It's the hip 1950s on Sydney's shimmering harbour, but how do you reconcile a past that gave — and stole — so much?

    Tina runs Tempo jazz club at shady Kings Cross, keeping secrets with, and from, her beguiling boss Jimmy. And from her lonely husband.

    Harry yearns to forget his days in a Singapore prison camp, yet his friends won't let him. Nor will his conscience.

    Ex-pilot Billie now works at the flying-boat base. When her old lover Pete turns up with a new wife there's a lot she prefers to conceal. Even from herself.

    Yvonne rebuilds a life by the harbour with her beloved Klara. But secrets emerge when she publishes Harry's war memoir — and then no one can postpone the reckoning.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSeabooks Press
    Release dateSep 25, 2020
    Embers at Midnight: Tempo, #2
    Harbour of Secrets: Tempo, #3
    Testing the Limits: Tempo, #1

    Titles in the series (3)

    • 1

      Testing the Limits: Tempo, #1
      Testing the Limits: Tempo, #1

      Testing the Limits: Tempo, #1

      Kate Lance
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      "Heartfelt and bittersweet. A delightful read, this beautifully written book comes highly recommended." Goodreads 1930s England: and for a group of friends it seems as if the sunny days of sailing, flying and love will never end. A deepwater sailing ship takes restless young Eliza McKee to a new life in glamorous London, but when she meets the handsome star of a talking film it's not quite the life she expects. Eliza's brother Pete yearns to fly, and pilot Billie Quinn can teach him. Pete calls her a sarcastic, scowling Amelia Earhart, but it's Billie who knows how much Pete has to learn. Eliza's aunt, actress Izabel Peres, hides a secret from the world. Then she falls for lawyer Felix with his buccaneering smile, and a case of shellshock he believes is behind him. Doctor Harry Bell, Eliza's old shipmate, loves fascinating Charlotte, but Charlotte just loves flirting and gambling — especially with flyboy Pete's heart. For Eliza's friends, the days of contentment are fading before the gathering dusk of war. And when a great white barque encounters the coast one foggy night, more than an era of sail finds itself tested to the limits. This is the first book in the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction.

      "Heartfelt and bittersweet. A delightful read, this beautifully written book comes highly recommended." Goodreads 1930s England: and for a group of friends it seems as if the sunny days of sailing, flying and love will never end. A deepwater sailing ship takes restless young Eliza McKee to a new life in glamorous London, but when she meets the handsome star of a talking film it's not quite the life she expects. Eliza's brother Pete yearns to fly, and pilot Billie Quinn can teach him. Pete calls her a sarcastic, scowling Amelia Earhart, but it's Billie who knows how much Pete has to learn. Eliza's aunt, actress Izabel Peres, hides a secret from the world. Then she falls for lawyer Felix with his buccaneering smile, and a case of shellshock he believes is behind him. Doctor Harry Bell, Eliza's old shipmate, loves fascinating Charlotte, but Charlotte just loves flirting and gambling — especially with flyboy Pete's heart. For Eliza's friends, the days of contentment are fading before the gathering dusk of war. And when a great white barque encounters the coast one foggy night, more than an era of sail finds itself tested to the limits. This is the first book in the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction.

    • 2

      Embers at Midnight: Tempo, #2
      Embers at Midnight: Tempo, #2

      Embers at Midnight: Tempo, #2

      Kate Lance
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      "The writing is beautiful and haunting. The characters are drawn with razor-sharp precision ... compelling reading of the highest standard, full of evocative triumph and tragedy." Goodreads In the calm of 1937, who could imagine the storms about to engulf a group of old friends at a sunny wedding? Some things are beyond imagination. Fierce pilot Billie is glad she's got a job at last — only trouble is it's in some little dust-up in Spain. Secretive Toby has no wish to volunteer for anything: till he finds out for himself what blitzkrieg means. Newlywed Eliza is posted to Intelligence at Singapore — safer there than in London, she thinks. But when fortress Singapore is reduced to embers, it is actress Izabel who is forced to play the role of her life. Embers at Midnight is the second book in the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction.

      "The writing is beautiful and haunting. The characters are drawn with razor-sharp precision ... compelling reading of the highest standard, full of evocative triumph and tragedy." Goodreads In the calm of 1937, who could imagine the storms about to engulf a group of old friends at a sunny wedding? Some things are beyond imagination. Fierce pilot Billie is glad she's got a job at last — only trouble is it's in some little dust-up in Spain. Secretive Toby has no wish to volunteer for anything: till he finds out for himself what blitzkrieg means. Newlywed Eliza is posted to Intelligence at Singapore — safer there than in London, she thinks. But when fortress Singapore is reduced to embers, it is actress Izabel who is forced to play the role of her life. Embers at Midnight is the second book in the Tempo series, by the winner of the Mountbatten Maritime Award and the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction.

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      Harbour of Secrets: Tempo, #3
      Harbour of Secrets: Tempo, #3

      Harbour of Secrets: Tempo, #3

      Kate Lance
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      The war is over. The reckoning is not. It's the hip 1950s on Sydney's shimmering harbour, but how do you reconcile a past that gave — and stole — so much? Tina runs Tempo jazz club at shady Kings Cross, keeping secrets with, and from, her beguiling boss Jimmy. And from her lonely husband. Harry yearns to forget his days in a Singapore prison camp, yet his friends won't let him. Nor will his conscience. Ex-pilot Billie now works at the flying-boat base. When her old lover Pete turns up with a new wife there's a lot she prefers to conceal. Even from herself. Yvonne rebuilds a life by the harbour with her beloved Klara. But secrets emerge when she publishes Harry's war memoir — and then no one can postpone the reckoning.

      The war is over. The reckoning is not. It's the hip 1950s on Sydney's shimmering harbour, but how do you reconcile a past that gave — and stole — so much? Tina runs Tempo jazz club at shady Kings Cross, keeping secrets with, and from, her beguiling boss Jimmy. And from her lonely husband. Harry yearns to forget his days in a Singapore prison camp, yet his friends won't let him. Nor will his conscience. Ex-pilot Billie now works at the flying-boat base. When her old lover Pete turns up with a new wife there's a lot she prefers to conceal. Even from herself. Yvonne rebuilds a life by the harbour with her beloved Klara. But secrets emerge when she publishes Harry's war memoir — and then no one can postpone the reckoning.

    Author

    Kate Lance

    Biography CM (Kate) Lance grew up on Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia. Her background is in science and technology, but in 2000 she ran across the story of the charmed life of an old Broome pearling lugger, Redbill, and discovered the joys of archives and writing. Kate Lance’s first book, Redbill: From Pearls to Peace, won the Western Australian Premier's Book Award for Non-Fiction in 2004. Her second book, Alan Villiers: Voyager of the Winds, won the Mountbatten Maritime Award for Best Literary Contribution in 2009. Her novels include The Turning Tide, published in 2014 by Allen & Unwin, and Atomic Sea, published in 2016 by Seabooks Press. Kate has two adult sons and lives with two whippets near the water in green South Gippsland.

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