Ghost Kings

In the wild heart of Africa, where ancient kingdoms sleep beneath the sun, a missionary's daughter discovers that some treasures are never meant to be found. Rachel Dove has lived her whole life in the shadow of the Zulus, but when she is saved from drowning by the enigmatic Richard Darrien, she glimpsed a world beyond the mission station - a world of lost cities and ghost kings. Years later, alone and far from help, Rachel becomes the target of Ishmael, a white man gone native, whose lust knows no bounds. With a Zulu king as his pawn and Rachel as his prize, the stakes could not be higher. But Richard has not forgotten her, and in the forgotten corridors of a dead empire, old debts come due. Haggard weaves together romance and adventure in this tale of colonial Africa, where dangerous men vie for a woman's fate and ancient mysteries hold the key to everything. For readers who loved King Solomon's Mines and She, this is Haggard at his most rip-roaring.