In 1964, Hollywood royalty Katie Barstow and her new husband, along with her glittering entourage, arrive for their luxury African safari, but are instead taken hostage by Russian mercenaries, in this blistering story of fame, race, love, and death set ina world on the cusp of great change.

"Deep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret. But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide"--

Texas Ranger Alex Markham lands an unusual assignment--protecting an ambassador's daughter on the African savanna. No one--not even wildlife filmmaker Meghan Jordan herself--can know his true identity. The stubborn but beautiful Meghan is nothing like the bookish woman he expected and neither is his unguarded reaction to her. For the cowboy-turned-cop, the routine babysitting assignment turns into a lifesaving mission when poachers target the unspecting...