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Mists of the Serengeti

Written by: Leylah Attar
Narrated by: Zachary Webber, Megan Tusing
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From New York Times and USA Today best-selling author, Leylah Attar, comes a compelling, emotionally resonant new novel, set against the lush backdrop of the Serengeti.

Once in Africa, I kissed a king....

"And just like that, in an old red barn at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, I discovered the elusive magic I had only ever glimpsed between the pages of great love stories. It fluttered around me like a newborn butterfly and settled in a corner of my heart. I held my breath, afraid to exhale for fear it would slip out, never to be found again."

When a bomb explodes in a mall in East Africa, its aftershocks send two strangers on a collision course that neither one sees coming.

Jack Warden, a divorced coffee farmer in Tanzania, loses his only daughter. An ocean away, in the English countryside, Rodel Emerson loses her only sibling.

Two ordinary people, bound by a tragic afternoon, set out to achieve the extraordinary, as they make three stops to rescue three children across the vast plains of the Serengeti - children who are worth more dead than alive.

But even if they beat the odds, another challenge looms at the end of the line. Can they survive yet another loss - this time of a love that's bound to slip through their fingers, like the mists that dissipate in the light of the sun?

"Sometimes you come across a rainbow story-one that spans your heart. You might not be able to grasp it or hold on to it, but you can never be sorry for the color and magic it brought."

Mists of the Serengeti is inspired by true events and contains emotional triggers, including the death of a child.

©2017 Leylah Attar (P)2017 Leylah Attar

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Five heartbreaking stars!

This is the third time I’ve let Mists of the Serengeti break my heart. Each time, it hurts just the same but I feel I walk away with a little bit more from this story. The narrators did a beautiful job bringing such life to the happiness, the devastation and the beauty of this story. Leylah Attar’s prose is utterly poignant - her words bring such comfort, devastation and insight that sometimes I just have to take a minute and absorb them.

Mists of the Serengeti is a story of love, loss, tragedy, healing, and heroism. It’s a story about injustice - and the people that fight it, big, loud, quiet and small. It’s the story of a woman who once upon a time kissed a broken king in Africa and brought nothing but colour to his world. It’s the story of the depths of human suffering and how, no matter how much is lost, people can get up again.

Five Stars.

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