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Book Four: Beautifully Warped

Publication Date

June 2026

Book Description

I’m alone. 


Well, not exactly alone. I’m on an overland truck with twenty-eight strangers for a six-week African Safari.


What could go wrong?


Where do I start?


With bush camping. This is not camping beside bushes. Oh, and rose-scented wipes are a terrible idea. Also sharing space with a melting pot of international passengers comes with conse

I’m alone. 


Well, not exactly alone. I’m on an overland truck with twenty-eight strangers for a six-week African Safari.


What could go wrong?


Where do I start?


With bush camping. This is not camping beside bushes. Oh, and rose-scented wipes are a terrible idea. Also sharing space with a melting pot of international passengers comes with consequences. There are fights, relationship bust-ups, and new love.


As I travel through the plains of the Serengeti, beaches in Zanzibar and Malawi, Victoria Falls, and mountains in Zimbabwe, the beauty of Africa sinks beneath my skin. And everything I thought I knew before is turned on its head – even tent living grows on me. I’m woefully unprepared for the shit that happens in Africa. But I wouldn’t change one crazy thing—except the rose-scented wipes.

The Route

The Route

Photos from the Trip

Content Warning

Profanity, consensual sexual content, sexual harassment, parental grief, alcohol, smoking, and drug use. 


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