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In 1908, on a mission to find a new breed of gorillas in central Africa, an unfathomable thing is discovered – a wild, white man living amongst a band of great apes. Local villagers call him matokeo ya utafutaji kwa, the untamed one. In England, renowned photographer, Sullivan Vinson, discovers the likely explanation, that the wild man is Sebastian Shaffer who, as a six-year-old, somehow escaped the massacre of Bishop Hannington's ill-fated party more than twenty years previous. Sullivan and his lovely and spirited niece and ward, Arianna Day, journey to Africa to join the team tracking ...

Narrated by a long-time servant of Crimson Hall, the story revolves around the Barrett family of North Carolina. Thaddeus Barrett is a compassionate father of three who grows hemp and spends time in his laboratory with dreams of inventing medicinal uses for it. His pretty, nearly seventeen-year-old daughter, Felicity (the offspring of his first wife) is more than a tad self-centered, which is no excuse for her younger twin sisters, Grace and Amelia, aggravating her as they too frequently do. Amelia lost her hearing as a result of the same fever that claimed the life of her mother, (the ...