The Lioness
About the book: A luxurious African safari turns deadly for a Hollywood starlet and her entourage in this historical thriller set in Tanganyika, now Tanzania.
Book beginning/First paragraph:
Katie Barslow
She was watching the giraffes at the watering hole after breakfast, no longer as awed by their presence as she had been even four days ago, when she'd had first seen a great herd of them eating leaves from a copse of tall umbrella acacia, their heads occasionally bobbing up to stare back, unfazed and not especially alarmed by the humans.
Page 56:
"No," she told him, feeling more like his mother than his wife. "You're right to be scared. We should be. But..."
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