Kestrel Ridge, Book Two
No Fixed Horizon
The next chapter of Kestrel Ridge is bigger, riskier and far more personal.
Kestrel Ridge is finally thriving.
For Alexis Morgan and Eric Taylor, that should mean stability. Instead, they find themselves facing the possibility of losing neighbouring Thornmere to a mining company determined to buy the land before they can.
If they want to protect the boundary between the two reserves, they need money.
Fast.
Their solution is ambitious: expand into privately guided safaris across Africa, use the income to strengthen Kestrel Ridge and find a way to secure Thornmere before someone else does.
But expansion comes with a cost.
As Alexis and Eric move between South Africa and Botswana, pressure begins to build at home. Thornmere is deteriorating. Staff are stretched. Rumours begin circulating. Old resentments resurface. And the more Kestrel Ridge grows, the harder it becomes to protect the people, relationships and principles that made it worth saving in the first place.
No Fixed Horizon is a story about conservation, ambition, family and the difficult truth that building a future can sometimes threaten the very freedom you were trying to protect.
For readers who enjoy
Romance with mature adult characters, African wildlife and safari settings, conservation themes, slow-burn attraction, capable heroines, emotionally grounded relationships, suspense and adventure.
Meet Tarryn Jones
Tarryn is a wildlife veterinarian with a sharp mind, a sharper tongue and very little patience for unnecessary drama.
She is fiercely competent, deeply committed to the animals she works with and far more comfortable in a veterinary field kit than discussing her own emotions.
As Kestrel Ridge expands, Tarryn becomes increasingly central to its conservation work, helping build a network of veterinary support around the reserve and the emerging conservation trust.
She is also one of the few people willing to tell Alexis and Eric exactly what she thinks, whether they ask or not.
Dry, blunt and impossible to intimidate, Tarryn brings both expertise and badly needed perspective to a reserve under growing pressure.
Meet John De Beer
John is the steady hand behind Kestrel Ridge.
As general manager, he keeps the lodge functioning while everyone else is chasing wildlife, land deals, donors, fires, guests and increasingly complicated personal lives.
Practical, loyal and quietly dependable, John is the person people turn to when something needs fixing without fuss.
But as Kestrel Ridge grows beyond the boundaries of a single reserve, John’s role changes too.
What begins as managing a successful safari operation becomes something much bigger: helping hold together a community, a conservation project and a future that none of them fully planned for.
No Fixed Horizon explores a bigger world
No Fixed Horizon moves beyond Kestrel Ridge.
The story follows privately guided safaris into Botswana, conservation work in South Africa and the increasingly complicated relationship between tourism, land, donors and wildlife protection.
The safari industry provides the financial engine behind much of the story, but the novel also explores what happens when conservation has to survive in the real world.
Land costs money.
Wildlife costs money.
Veterinary work, anti-poaching teams, infrastructure and staff all cost money.
Good intentions are not enough.
For Alexis and Eric, protecting Thornmere means finding a way to make conservation financially sustainable without allowing money to become the reason for everything they do.
The Kestrel Ridge Series
No Fixed Horizon is the second novel in the Kestrel Ridge series and continues the story that began in The Boundary Between Us.
The stakes are larger, the world expands beyond the reserve and the people at Kestrel Ridge begin discovering that saving a place is only the beginning.
The next challenge is deciding what to build with it.
Continue the Series
No Fixed Horizon
Book Two of the Kestrel Ridge Series
Romance. Adventure. Conservation. Africa.
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