A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn

Here, life is lush and teeming – yet fleeting and often cheap. Giraffes, buffalo, lions and elephants roam the shores of Lake Wanyama amid swirls of red dust. As foreign to Delilah as Africa, Ryder becomes her guide to the complex beauty of this unknown world.

As mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent pleasures of society.Īgainst the frivolity of her peers, Ryder White stands in sharp contrast. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favourite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides.įairlight is the crumbling, sun–bleached skeleton of a faded African dream – a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft–married mother blanch. Only when this sacred place is profaned by bloodshed does Delilah discover what is truly worth fighting for-and what she can no longer live without.The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. Here, life is lush and teeming-yet fleeting and often cheap.Īmidst the wonders-and dangers-of Africa, Delilah awakes to a land out of all proportion: extremes of heat, darkness, beauty and joy that cut to her very heart.

Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides.įairlight is the crumbling, sun-bleached skeleton of a faded African dream, a world where dissolute expats are bolstered by gin and jazz records, cigarettes and safaris. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even among Paris society. From New York Times bestselling author of Killers of a Certain Age, Deanna Raybourn.

A Spear of Summer Grass by Deanna Raybourn