One last trip to save a marriage. One night that nearly costs them everything.

Holt and Dana Whitfield are out of road. Two years of his hardness and her exhaustion have worn their marriage down to something neither one recognizes anymore—so when their kids beg for one last family vacation to a drive-through safari park, they say yes, hoping it might be the thing that brings them back to each other.

Brushland Wildlife Park is hiding its own quiet collapse. A corporate buyout. Slashed budgets. A magnificent lion named Mumbato, the park's pride and its last hope of staying open—starving, slowly, while no one with the power to stop it is paying attention.

When the safari truck the family is riding in breaks down on the night tour, a storm rolls in fast and hard. The fence between them and Mumbato has been quietly failing for months. And the only people who know it—a grieving keeper named Earl, and a corporate executive more worried about liability than lives—are three hundred yards and a world of indifference away.

What happens next forces Holt and Dana to say the things they've spent two years avoiding, in the one place they never expected to find them: trapped in a storm, with their children, facing down a starving king who was never the monster anyone made him out to be.

FAMILY SURVIVAL is a story about what happens when the things we're supposed to feed—a marriage, a family, a magnificent animal who deserved better—get quietly starved instead. It's about the difference between protecting the people you love and controlling them. And it's about what's still possible to save, even after the storm has already done its worst.

Perfect for listeners of emotionally raw family dramas and survival fiction who want a story with real teeth—where the danger outside the truck is no match for the distance that's grown inside it.