When Lucy Brennan flees her controlling boyfriend for the wild beauty of Botswana's Okavango Delta, she thinks she's finally found freedom. Managing a remote safari lodge in Africa's untamed paradise feels like the fresh start she desperately needs.
But freedom becomes complicated when she's left alone with Starky Willis?the dangerously charismatic hunter whose magnetic charm has captivated women across the Delta. As their attraction ignites under star-scattered African skies, Lucy discovers that escaping one controlling man may have led her straight into the arms of someone far more dangerous.
When her manipulative ex-boyfriend Eddie arrives with devastating timing and emotional blackmail about her sick mother, Lucy faces an impossible choice. Meanwhile, gentle pilot Rob watches helplessly as the woman he loves gets caught between two men who want to control her destiny.
Set against the breathtaking backdrop of elephants, lions, and endless African horizons, this is the prequel that reveals how love found its way to the characters readers adored in Whispers in the Kalahari. In the Okavango Delta, some risks lead to paradise?and others to peril.
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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.