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. Against the frivolity of her peers, Ryder White stands in sharp contrast. As mistress of this wasted estate, Delilah falls into the decadent pleasures of society. Fairlight 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. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savanna manor house until gossip subsides. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Paris, 1923 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.
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