The Sheik

At the Biskra Hotel, Lady Conway calls Diana Mayo’s desert expedition “the maddest piece of unprincipled folly” she has ever heard of. Diana, meanwhile, is busy turning down dance partners.

In the lantern-lit resort town of Biskra, English visitors debate what a young woman may safely—or respectably—do alone. Diana has been brought up to ride, travel and trust her own judgment, not to heed every warning; now she means to venture into the desert without a chaperone. Her independence delights some and scandalizes others, but the wide sands beyond the hotel promise more than a breach of convention. How far will Diana’s courage carry her from the ballroom lights?

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