This is a romantic suspense novel involving an American Architect who arrived in Dar-es-Salam, Tanzania, East Africa, to be the Site Architect for the construction of the University College in Tanzania. He falls in love with a beautiful Goan girl from the former Portuguese colony of Goa in Indian, but their love is forbidden as it violates social custom and is vigorously resisted by the girls father. Their affair evolves through various secret meetings, visits to historic sites, climbing Mount Kilimanjaro, the rise of terrorism in East Africa, and safaris through some of worlds greatest big game animal parks. It reaches a climax in their attempt to get married in a Catholic Church in the old Portuguese city of Mombasa in Kenya with the girls father in hot pursuit, and the couples struggle to escape amid the mans malaria attack and the bombing of the US Embassy.
