The Animal Lover

Reminiscent of Water for Elephants and The Life of Pi, The Animal Lover takes you on a journey through past and present you won’t quickly forget. In equal parts mystery, romance, comedy, and adventure, it crisscrosses the globe and whisks you from modern-day Africa back to the jungles of World War 2. Upton Magna, sadsack son of the evil millionaire Solomon Magna, has been sent to a backwater city in West Africa. On a whim he starts following the mysterious Ella Bazaar on a madcap journey in search of a stolen okapi. He also happens to be reading the 1939 diary of the dashingly handsome Hercule, written on a coconut plantation during wartime. When the gorgeous Sylvie arrives, magical, inexplicable things start to happen to the world around Hercule. At the same time, someone seems to be orchestrating the downfall of the Magna empire. How are past and present, Upton and Hercule, Sylvie and Ella Bazaar connected? And who is the animal lover? If you think you know, think again. You won’t find out until the last page – and it’s a firecracker of an ending. Fiction, Africa, Animals, Conservation