American adventuress Jade del Cameron has returned home to British East Africa to help the Perkins and Daley Zoological Company collect wild animals for zoos in the States when the body of a local merchant is found on a coffee-growing plantation and the prime suspect is Jade's beau, movie-maker and ace World War I flyer Sam Featherstone.

Returning from Europe, intrepid explorer Jade del Cameron arrives in Kenya with bittersweet memories--and the certainty that Africa is her home and Sam Featherstone the man she wants to share her life with. When a letter arrives from America, Jade hopes it's Sam sending word of his return. Instead, it's a message written in the hand of her long- dead fiancé, asking "Why did you let me die?" When two men die under mysterious circumstances and Jade...