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The Guardians
Paperback
General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 25 2026
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.42 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The Guardians
By S. Laurel Vale
In the shadow of Tahoma, where glacier-fed rivers remember what people forget, one woman stands between worlds.
Elara Nakoa is an aquatic ecologist trained in data, models, and measurable truth. But when the Nisqually River begins to change in ways science alone cannot explain, she is pulled into something older-something that breathes beneath the surface of the land itself.
As salmon falter, forests thin, and unseen seams begin to strain, Elara discovers she is not simply a witness to environmental collapse-she is part of a living network of guardianship. Guided by her grandmother's ancestral knowledge and her own scientific insight, she must navigate two worlds: one driven by policy and profit, the other by memory, reciprocity, and balance.
But the greatest threat is not a creature or catastrophe.
It is forgetting.
As development encroaches and the fragile threads binding land, water, and spirit begin to fray, Elara must decide:
Will she remain within the safety of data and distance...
Or step fully into her role as a bridge between what was broken-and what can still be restored?
Rooted in the landscapes and traditions of the Pacific Northwest, The Guardians is a powerful story of ecological responsibility, ancestral memory, and the quiet, sacred work of remembering how to belong.
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