A novel of survival against adversity, of friendship between different worlds and a fight for justice. Jade Viljoen spent the first fourteen years of her life on the edge of the Kalahari Desert, loving the freedom that it offered. Then fate moved to abandon her in its harsh interior and she found herself fighting for her life in the place she loved. She could rely on only one thing. A friend who knew better than her how to kill to live, how to hide to survive and how to master the desert. A friend who started life as a vulnerable cub in a family of leopards and now partners her as one of the ultimate predators. The two forge an alliance of necessity. Until the outside world intervenes .. Place of Dry Water is a desert thriller, immersing you totally in its unique environment, while the plot twists and turns in the heat of the Kalahari.