In a remote corner of the South African bush, two sisters reunite to bury a family secret once and for all, but when they’re stranded among the wild animals, they find a predator far more dangerous waiting for them in the shadows. . . .When their conservationist mother passes, Danielle and her sister, Grace, reunite to return to their isolated family house nestled within a wild-game reserve. While Grace clings to nostalgia as their mother’s favorite, only Danielle carries the weight of their enigmatic mother’s final “Find the storehouse . . . Burn everything inside.”What begins as a reluctant homecoming disguised as a safari adventure—each sister inviting two friends to ease the journey—turns into a nightmare when a murder rocks their first morning in the bush. In the chaos that follows, they crash their vehicle, stranding them, with no way to call for help.Now Danielle must lead them on foot across miles of merciless savannah, with dwindling supplies and only one rifle. As the group navigates land where every rustle could mean death, a truth someone is sabotaging their escape.Breathtaking and tense, The Night Hunter maps the treacherous terrain of family duty and loyalty as the two sisters confront what they’ve spent years trying to forget.
People come here for the killers.They arrive in waves, tumbling out of tourist planes, buses and taxis, carrying their animal checklist in one hand and newly unboxed DSLRs in the other, seeking a kind of bloodshed that's absent from their lives.Most of them come for the cats-the cheetahs, leopards and lions that live in these South African parks and make up the main cast of nature documentaries and children's cartoons. Some, mostly those who have been here before, look for more nimble hunters: jackals, hyenas, birds of prey and packs of wild dogs that tear their prey limb from limb.Not me. I'm here because of the creature that killed my mother one small enough that it could perch on the palm of my hand.
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