When She is Eleven Years Old, Martine is Orphaned and Sent to Live With Her Grandmother on a Game Reserve in South Africa. Her Grandmother Seems Strangely Unwelcoming and Martine Has a Difficult Time Settling in at Her New School, Where She is Conspicuously an Outsider. but She Has an Ally in Tendai - One of the Keepers on the Reserve, From Whom She Learns the Lore and Survival Techniques of the Bush, and in Grace - Who Instantly Senses There is Something Special About Martine. There Are Secrets About Sawubona (The Reserve) Just Waiting to Be Revealed, and Rumours Too About a Fabled White Giraffe - a Trophy for Hunters Everywhere. One Night Martine, Lonely and Feeling Slightly Rebellious Too, Looks Out of Her Window and See a Young Albino Giraffe - Silver, Tinged With Cinnamon in the Moonlight. This is the Beginning of Her Mysterious and Magical Adventures - Her Discovery of Her Gift of Healing and a Secret Valley That She Travels to With the Giraffe, Where She'll Find Clues About