A dramatic story of courage and betrayal from the author of "The Russian Concubine" and "The White Pearl." London, 1932. Beautiful, determined Jessie Kenton is horrified to discover that her brother, Egyptologist Timothy Kenton, has gone missing. With the help of a dashing aristocrat, Jessie heads to the alien, swirling sands of the Egyptian desert. As romance sparks between them, she finds herself caught in a nebulous world of sances and mystics.
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