title: Jungle Heat
author: Dee, Bonnie
description: Congo Free State, 1888
  
  On a mission deep in the jungle, Oxford anthropologist James Litchfield comes face-to-face with a local legend: a wild man who wanders with mountain gorillas and lives as one of their own.
  
  The chance encounter with the savage, whom James calls Michael, leads to a game of observation and exploration. Their mutual curiosity turns to an attraction -- one that Michael has never experienced and James is desperate to deny.
  
  When members of the expedition unearth James's secret discovery -- a living specimen of man at his most primitive -- Michael becomes a pawn in their quest for fame.
  
  As their relationship deepens, James is compelled to protect Michael from the academics who would treat him as nothing more than a scientific acquisition and London society, which threatens to destroy their passionate bond...