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Cradle of Lightning

A Story of Botswana

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Cradle of Lightning

By: Francine Walls
Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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It is 1972 and Alicia Talbot, a Vietnam war widow with a two-year-old son, has traveled to the poor, mostly illiterate nation of Botswana to teach English. At the nearby border, civil war roils Rhodesia. Alicia’s remote school harbors a saboteur, someone runs guns to Rhodesian guerrillas, and students sense the rising tension. Alicia falls for a new teacher, Jake Hunter, but just when romance seems possible, the sunbaked Kalahari Desert and guerrilla warfare threaten all she loves.

©2024 Francine Walls (P)2025 Francine Walls
Genre Fiction Historical Fiction War & Military Women's Fiction Africa
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