About this audiobook
Benita Clifford's return to southern Africa brings her into a search for Portuguese treasure associated with an ancient stronghold. Her father and his partner Jacob Meyer approach the undertaking with expectations that do not entirely agree. As the expedition progresses, the promise of wealth becomes inseparable from questions about Benita's freedom and the intentions of those closest to her.
H. Rider Haggard combines adventurous travel with an atmosphere of legend and psychological pressure. Ruins preserve traces of an earlier tragedy, while the desire to interpret their secrets gives present ambitions a disturbing connection with the past. The dangers of the landscape exist beside more immediate dangers within the group itself.
The novel explores greed, trust and the resistance of an individual whose experience others hope to use for their own purposes. Its mixture of suspense and supernatural possibility invites readers to follow how a search for hidden gold can reveal the motives that an apparent partnership conceals.
