SHOWERING WITH THE SPIDERS

Along came a spider, but she found something wilder

Tait Dunnigan's life is picture-perfect: a charming, mortgage-free home she adores, a flourishing events-planning business, a daughter successfully launched into the world, and a blissful twenty-five-year marriage to Martin, her orthodontist husband. The only flaw in her idyllic existence is her irrational, heart-stopping fear of spiders. But Martin is always there to deal with those eight-legged nightmares.

Until, suddenly, he's not.

When Martin leaves her, Tait's world spirals into chaos, her future a daunting blank canvas she has no idea how to paint. Just as she feels herself unraveling, a lucrative work contract arrives, followed by an unexpected, tantalizing offer. A trip. To Africa. A destination she's dreamt about since childhood.

But can she handle it? A self-proclaimed city girl, braving nights in a tent in the Botswana bush, while lions roar and hyenas howl outside. Daily game drives across rugged terrain, avoiding temperamental elephants and prowling leopards. Paddling through crocodile-infested waters in the Okavango Delta. And, as if all of that wasn't enough, navigating a growing attraction to Hayes Maxwell, her enigmatic safari guide.

And then, of course, there's those damned spiders

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