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Less than a month after the celebrations of Millennium Night, the island of Lombok – sister to its famous neighbour, Bali – is torn apart by riots, part of the religious and ethnic tensions that are threatening the stability of the whole of Indonesia.

After a life spent wandering the world, Denise Laing has settled in the tourist resort of Senggigi and seems to have found a fragile inner peace. But the riots, and the arrival of her estranged daughter, set off a personal crisis that shakes this peace to its roots.

The final part of a trilogy set in Indonesia, Lombok Flames explores the struggle to find meaning in the modern globalised world and the role of religion in that struggle.