Beneath a Burning Sky

Exotic and mysterious - I was gripped by this complex taleDinah Jefferies, author of number one bestselling The Tea Planters WifeA beautiful and heart-wrenching story of love and betrayal, set against a backdrop of British-occupied Egypt. Perfect for fans of Victoria Hislop, Dinah Jefferies and Leah Fleming.When 22-year-old Olivia is coerced into marriage by the cruel Alistair Sheldon, she leaves England for Egypt, his home and the land of her own childhood. Reluctant as she is to go with Alistair, its in her new home that she finds happiness in surprising places: she is reunited with her long-estranged sister, Clara, and falls - impossibly and illicitly - in love with her husbands boarder, Captain Edward Bertram. Then Clara is abducted from one of the busiest streets in the city. Olivia is told its thieves after ransom money, but shes convinced theres more to it. As she sets out to discover whats happened to the sister shes only just begun to know, she falls deeper into the shadowy underworld of Alexandria, putting her own life and her chance at a future with Edward, the only man shes ever loved, at risk. Because, determined as Olivia is to find Clara, there are others who will stop at nothing to conceal whats become of her....

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