The Secrets of the Empty Quarter

About this book

In the heart of unforgiving sands, and where winds whisper the dead's secrets, the tale of "The Secrets of the Empty Quarter" begins. It is no mere story of a king seeking vengeance, but a journey into the human psyche's depths when loss waves and revenge winds toss it. The threads begin with a silent scream in a Yemeni palace garden, where little Matilda plays with an innocence unaware that treachery's hand has snatched her mother Queen Joanna with a poisoned cup. From here King Yemen doffs his crown to don mystery's mask, leaving his throne and little daughter behind, rushing toward Iraq's desert on a peril-fraught journey. Between an isolated hut dwelling Muhera, the horsewoman honed by desert sorrows, and the labyrinths of tyrant King Ghassan's palace, destinies tangle. Can a heart sworn to fidelity to a departed memory open its doors to a new soul born of suffering's womb? And are "the Empty Quarter's secrets" mere shifting sands, or do they hide beneath an ancient curse and manuscripts overturning power balances? This novel.