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How important is your cell phone, your new Gucci handbag, your Versace sunglasses? What about education, a place that is safe to sleep or fresh uncontaminated drinking water? Instead of serving a juvenile detention sentence, spoiled rotten Alexandria Hyatt, just shy of her sweet sixteen, is sent to Kenya, Africa to help change the world by first changing herself.

Alex is thrust into a new way of thinking, acting and even doing the most basic of functions like taking a shower and using the toilet. Designer clothes and jewellry mean nothing, while chilling out means literally staying cool in the shade. Can her MAC make-up, acrylic nails and salon hair stand up to manual labour, African desert dust and wild, unpredictable animals? Ultimately Alexandria must acquire a mature independence, one that may save a newborn life.

This new novel from Eric Walters is a departure in both location and culture letting the reader glimpse the beauty of Kenya, Africa, the Maasai people and the traditions they value. Eric Walters' universal concepts of friendship, loyalty and adversity remain firmly embedded, as always.

Would you be alarmed to realize a herd of African elephants is quietly walking by with the ability to trample you at any moment? This tenuous truce with nature is the truth of Africa, and a life lesson for Alexandria.