The Garden of Burning Sand

Combining his three great passions—storytelling, human rights, and exotic locales—Corban Addison, the bestselling author of A Walk Across the Sun, returns with The Garden of Burning Sand, a powerful and poignant novel that takes the reader from the red light areas of Lusaka, Zambia, to the gilded chambers of the Washington, D.C. elite, to the splendor of Victoria Falls and Cape Town.
 
An accomplished young human rights lawyer, Zoe Fleming has made a life for herself in Zambia, far from her estranged father, a business mogul with presidential aspiration, and from the devastating betrayals of her past.
 
When a girl with Down syndrome is sexually assaulted in a Lusaka slum, Zoe demands justice. Determined to see the case through, she joins Zambian police officer Joseph Zabuta in investigating the rape. Piecing together clues from the victim’s past, they discover a violent connection between the girl, Kuyeya, and a powerful Zambian family that will stop at nothing to bury the truth.
 
As Zoe and Joseph are drawn deeper into the complex web of characters behind this sinister crime, they forge a bond of friendship that slowly transforms into love. Thwarted at every turn, they find themselves caught in a great clash between the forces of justice and power. To vindicate Kuyeya and build a future with Joseph, Zoe must risk her life and her heart, and confront the past she thought she left behind.