Memories, magic--and murder lie in wait on the scorching plains of Kenya

Victoria Caryll departs London for the lush jungle of her Aunt Emily's estate, Flamingo, her adventurous heart full of forbidden desire--and foreboding.

Soon she will see Eden DeBrett, the man to whom she once was engaged in that magical land of her childhood.

But her arrival marks the beginning of mortal danger for Victoria and her family as a mysterious evil disrupts Flamingo and soon threatens the entire Rift Valley colony with its malevolence.

M.M. Kaye has composed an exotic puzzle with murder as the centerpiece. This is a story of people passionately committed to one another in a struggle to keep the life they love--until one of them becomes a murderer.