"Jancey lifted her arm protectively as the great head came down and then gave a stifled gasp of fear as the lioness gently closed its mouth around her right forearm... the teeth gripped tighter..." Avocado Lodge in the 1970s - a dilapidated fishing lodge on the shores of Lake Naivasha in Kenya's Great Rift Valley that caters for visiting tourists and the expatriate British and American community. Local farmer, Simon Farrant falls for a new arrival, young Jancey Frazer. As the plot develops, a toxic mixture of witchcraft, prejudice and seduction propels the main characters towards potential disaster. Sue Heaser combines a dramatic love story with high adventure in this thrilling novel about a beautiful and wild country.