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by Audrey A. Tucker (Author)
She came to photograph the wild. She never expected to risk everything to protect it.
Wildlife photographer Anya Tremaine travels to Namibia with her Belgian Tervuren, Nalani, hoping the vast landscapes and untamed beauty of Africa will give her the distance she needs from a grief she cannot seem to outrun.
Instead, the desert gives her something else.
At first, it is only a pattern: strange tracks near a waterhole, unfamiliar vehicles, animals behaving as though danger is just beyond sight. Then Anya discovers a wounded cheetah caught in a snare, and her role as a witness becomes something far more personal.
As Anya, Nalani, and the people who have learned to read the land around them begin following the evidence, they uncover signs of something much larger than illegal hunting. The deeper they look, the more dangerous the truth becomes. In a landscape where wind can erase footprints overnight and powerful people have every reason to keep secrets buried, Anya's camera may be one of the few things capable of preserving what happened.
From the open plains of Namibia to the unforgiving reaches of the Skeleton Coast, Anya must decide how far she is willing to go to expose what others would rather leave unseen.
Because some photographs are more than beautiful.
Some are evidence.
Echoes in the Desert is a gripping wildlife conservation thriller about courage, loyalty, the human-animal bond, and the dangerous consequences of telling the truth when powerful people want it buried.
