When the wind comes from the south, the desert possesses you. Philip was suddenly dispatched to a country no one had heard of, on a mission he didn't understand. So he went for a run. Having survived both Vietnam and law school, he understood the solace of exhaustion. Cassandra Sullivan was totally gorgeous. Red hair, pale skin, tall, capable, angular and English. In New York she would be married to a billionaire. But she wasn't in New York. She was in Alidar, where women had no legal existence. A scandalous story of two lives that run into each other on the other side of the world. A place where perfection is tangible, women are invisible and five times a day a man shouts from a tower that God is great.