A Zulu teen and a white boy forge a golden friendship during the apartheid era in South Africa, and when one saves the others' life, they become blood brothers. But society rips the friends apart and when they meet again, ten years later on opposite sides of a battlefield. One a reluctant soldier, the other a passionate freedom fighter. Can only one survive or is blood thicker than water?

SYNOPSIS:

A #1 Amazon New Release, ZEBRA. Friends by Fate. Enemies by Destiny is a coming-of-age/action/adventure/war/feel good novel that would be perfect for a Limited TV series with about 10 hours of screen time. Rather than give you the synopsis, let one of my readers (a 40+ year old attorney) describe my book as he did in an Amazon review:

"Reviewed in the United States on September 20, 22: 5 STARS: I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN.

A captivating story. The most endearing characters. And an exotic far away land. All deftly drawn together by the delicate hand of author, Jill Wallace.

Her love for her native South Africa, and her love for the real-life people who inspired this story, suffuse each page with both a vibrancy and a grounded realness that made my heart sing, and sometimes brought me to tears.

I challenge any reader to try to NOT fall in love with Jock and Papin. I laughed and chuckled with their adventures and misadventures. I smiled and wept with their joys and sorrows. And above all I felt the profound depth of their friendship and brotherhood.

As these two boys grow up together, we experience with them the conflicts and issues that were once invisible to them as children.

ZEBRA is not a political book, but it gazes unflinchingly at the cruelty and injustice of the apartheid era - how it seeks to define these young men, how each of them endures, and where the power of their brotherhood leads them.

Somehow, reading ZEBRA feels both like a modern classic and a guilty pleasure at the same time. It was so much fun to read, and I feel like a better person for having read it. It is the literary equivalent of eating your vegetables, and having them taste like dessert!"

I would describe ZEBRA this way: POWER OF ONE meets KITE RUNNER meets INVICTUS. This book is inspired by actual events and based on my husband's experiences growing up in Champagne Castle Hotel in the Drakensburg Mountains of South Africa and the many years he was forced to be a solider (the alternative was jail time) fighting the Border and Bush Wars in South Africa in the 60ies and 70ies.