When the Lion Feeds (Courtney Family, Book 1)
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ISBN: 0312940661 / Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, October 2006
In late nineteenth-century South Africa, Sean Courteney follows his destiny to the gold mines of Pretoria, while his twin brother Garrick bitterly plots revenge against his brother for the shooting accident that crippled him.
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He began life at his twin brother's side, soon running wild on his father's ranch on the edge of Africa. But violence, desire, and fate sent Sean Courtney into exile--where he would fight and love his way to extraordinary success and heartbreaking failure...In a place called The Ridge of White Waters, Sean made a life-long friendship, mined a fortune of gold, and met his own demons. Then an act of cunning betrayal struck--and ignited a new adventure to a new frontier.From facing the murderous charge of a towering bull elephant to watching men die unspeakable deaths, Sean fought new enemies, forged new allies--and dreamed of establishing a family on a farm of his own. But in Wilbur Smith's When the Lion Feeds, the young man who had lived by his courage, sweat, and blood was about to discover that the past still had its claws in him…
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