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When Stone leaves hurriedly for a top-secret story but doesnt have his malaria medicine, Reena enlists the help of black man Dakimu Reiman to help her find Stone. Deep in the jungle, they discover Stone is being held by militants, and death for all seems inevitable.
The lives of Stone, Reena, and Dak evolve in the political turmoil of the 1950s and early 1960s in Tanganyika. Their personal goals, unrelated at the start, become increasingly dependent on and resolvable only inside their surprising and complex relationship. From the wild savannahs and forests of East Africa to England and the United States, spiritual, racial, and cultural barriers threaten and divide them. There is one thing among them that cannot be shaken and brings them to the harrowing edge of every choice they have made and every tenet they have believed. Their road to redemption is marked with controversy, self-doubt, and pain.
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Elizabeth Cain is a native Californian now living in Montana with her husband Jerome, sixteen dogs, five cats, four horses, winter resident elk and wolves on 250 acres of the Blackfoot Valley. She has had many poems published, won numerous poetry awards, and had two poems set to music for chorus and orchestra. She was a secondary schoolteacher for thirty-one years in Ventura County, California, and still occasionally teaches poetry classes at the local Lincoln public school. Among her other published works are a non-fiction book about a Morgan horse titled They Call Me Sunny. She now offers her first novel, Once to Every Man, a story set mostly in Tanzania where she recently traveled after finishing the book. She has written her second novel Almost Paradise and is working on a sequel to that novel titled Dancing in the Red Snow.
