Lily Bushwold never thought that one day she would follow a man she hardly knew into the jungle, to the village he was born. But love can change a lot in a person's life. Lily grew up in group homes and when she got a teaching job in Cochabamba, Bolivia, she took the chance for a change. The problem is that there was no teaching job and now she's stuck in Cochabamba showing off her thieving skills to some new girlfriends. But, when Omar enters her life is it like being hit by a train; she has met the man of her dreams. So, of course, Lily goes with him when he must return to his home village in the middle of the jungle after his brother's child has been killed by a jaguar. However, she soon learns that much in the jungle can kill...

As a book about life with a tribe in the middle of the Bolivian jungle, INTO THE JUNGLE is very good. As a thriller, I never really felt that this book was all that thrilling. There are bad men and dangerous animals, but I never found the book to be suspenseful in a heart-pounding way. However, I found the cultural differences Lily experiences as she tries to live among a tribe in the jungle, to be the most interesting part of the story. Erica Ferencik added some interesting action to the story near the end of the story, but as with the rest of the story, did it not raise my pulse. I did find the book to be very interesting, but not quite as thrilling as I was expecting.