When Verity White reluctantly follows her husband James to Botswana's Okavango Delta, she's forced to abandon her flourishing magazine career just as it was taking off.
Though James hopes the breathtaking landscapes of his childhood will rekindle their faltering marriage, Verity struggles to forgive him for uprooting their lives.
Their fragile reconciliation is tested when Verity befriends James's cousin Susan, whose brother died under mysterious circumstances fifteen years ago. Drawn into Susan's obsession with charismatic safari operator Starky Willis?a man whose magnetic presence affects Verity more than she cares to admit?she finds herself caught between loyalty to her husband and an intensifying quest for truth.
When evidence connects the death to an elaborate poaching scheme, the danger becomes all too real. Targeted by powerful enemies who want their secrets buried in the blood-red Kalahari sands, James and Verity must work together to survive.
Against a backdrop of untamed wilderness and looming threat, they discover that protecting each other might be the key to saving not just their lives but also their marriage?if the whispers of the Kalahari don't claim them first.
Begin your journey into the wild heart of Africa with Book 1 in the Wings over Africa series. Based on the author's own experiences as a safari hostess in the Okavango and Kalahari during the early 1990s, "Whispers in the Kalahari" delivers an authentic, thrilling adventure where danger and romance intertwine beneath the African sky.
Order your copy today and discover the secrets that lie beneath the desert sands.
Autorentext
Beverley Oakley was seventeen when she bundled up her first her 500+ page romance and sent it to a publisher. Unfortunately drowning her heroine on the last page was apparently not in line with the expectations of romance readers so Beverley became a journalist.
Twenty-six years later Beverley was delighted to receive her first publishing contract from Robert Hale (UK) for a romance in which she ensured her heroine was saved from drowning in the icy North Sea.
Since 2009 Beverley has written more than thirteen historical romances, mostly set in England during the early nineteenth century. Mystery, intrigue and adventure spill from their pages and if she can pull off a thrilling race to save someone's honour - or a worthy damsel from the noose - it's time to celebrate with a good single malt Scotch.
Beverley lives with her husband, two daughters and a Rhodesian Ridgeback puppy the size of a pony opposite a picturesque nineteenth century lunatic asylum. She also writes Africa-set adventure-filled romances tarring handsome bush pilot heroes, and historical romances with less steam and more sexual tension, as Beverley Eikli.