Wild at Heart

Sarah and Caroline decide to build and furnish some luxury accommodations to attract wealthy guests in an attempt to sort out the family's financial problems. Danny is focused on more practical concerns and doesn't understand why his checks to pay the bills keep bouncing. When two endangered tiger cubs go missing from Mara, blame is automatically cast on the Trevanions.

Danny brings in two veterinary students in an attempt to choose an assistant, but he fails to see that his own daughter Rosie has the practical experience he's really looking for. Sarah realizes she needs her Mum after firing her and discovering she's taken a job as Deputy Manager at Mara.

Du Plessis is over the moon when Kirk reveals his fiancée is pregnant. However, Kirk drops a bombshell about their plans for their future. Mara's new American owner, Elliot Kriel wants to pull down the fences between the two reserves and forge a cooperative (rather than competitive) relationship with the Trevanions.

An old friend of Danny's from veterinary college turns up with a lioness she's stolen from a distant reserve involved in dodgy hunting practices. She implicates Danny because she knows he won't allow the owners to take the animal back.

Dup discovers a rare, highly prized white lion at Mara, and the family decides to keep it a secret to prevent it being poached. Caroline reveals the lion's presence to a visiting journalist and is blamed when the lion is snared. Danny is determined to discover the truth, which leads to an angry confrontation.

A severe drought forces Danny to sell some of his favourite wild animals and use the money for a desperately needed well in the township. Rosie and Max reveal their engagement. Grateful locals respond by helping to build the Leopards Den animal hospital. Finally, it looks like the tide is turning in a positive direction for the Trevanion family.

The continuing drought has created a tense atmosphere, which worsens when Max's parents and brother arrive for the big wedding day. Everything is brought to a terrifying halt when a bush fire rages across the property and threatens to destroy everything the family has worked so hard to achieve.

The hospital is lost in the fire, but the animals are now in danger of being trapped in the flames, so the Trevanions rush to help them. Disaster strikes and the family has to decide what it can do in the face of such tragedy. Africa has been their saviour and now could be their undoing.