He's lived all his adult life on the banks of the Zambezi River. A safari camp operator but destined to live alone. Despondently returning to Zimbabwe after his brother's wedding, Phillip Crookshank is left ruminating about his future. Until he meets the American... Falling for the seductive woman's charms, Phillip knows it will only be a brief love affair. As they always are. But Martha has other ideas. Ideas to entrap a man who only has one true love. His passion for Africa. Trapping Phillip in the only way she can, Martha thinks she has won but has she? Only the gods will decide... is the thirteenth book in the acclaimed Brigandshaw series where ordinary people's lives play out right before your eyes with Peter Rimmer's unique voice. You feel you are right there too, in the thick of it.