The Shallow Seas: A Tale of Two Towns: Singapore and Batavia

Fleeing a scandalous liaison with her married Chinese lover, nineteen-year-old Charlotte Macleod is pregnant and alone in 1842 Singapore. Given the choice of marriage to a man she does not love or facing loss and pain, Charlotte will find a way to make a life—until she returns to Singapore, to the man she loves, to face the hardest decision of her life.