The Women Who Stand Between

By Jeannée Sacken

Book Overview

Winner, 2026 Hawthorne Prize

First Place Winner, 2026 CIBA CLUE Award

Finalist, 2025 American Writing Awards Book of the Year; Winner, Best Women's Fiction;

Finalist, Suspense/Thriller; Finalist, Multicultural Fiction

Winner, 2025 Literary Global Book Awards Best Multicultural Fiction; Finalist, Best Mystery

Suspense and Women's Fiction

Winner, 2025 Firebird Awards Multicultural Fiction and Suspense

Winner, 2026 International Impact Books Award Best Women's Fiction

Big Book Love, 2026 January Book of the Month

Readers' Favorite Five Star Review

Second Place, 2025 Book Fest Awards Thriller/Suspense and Women's Thriller/Suspense

Julia Wilde is one of the best wildlife cinematographers in the business. But while on location in southern Africa, she finds herself unfairly blamed for an accident that leaves several crew members dead. Blacklisted by the movie industry, she takes a job in the film department at a Midwestern university only to discover that tenure depends on her making a movie.

With a small crew of talented filmmaking friends in tow, Julia heads back to Zimbabwe to make a documentary about the Mambas, a fierce all-female anti-poaching unit who risk their lives every day to protect endangered species.

But as Julia soon learns, being behind the lens is no protection from poachers who will do whatever it takes to protect their business and keep this movie from seeing the light of day.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 164538621X
• ISBN13: 9781645386216
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Ten16 Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"