Sandstorm In My Heart
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"Sandstorm In My Heart" - A Romantic Novelette by Faith Mortimer
She’s hot under the collar – and it’s not just due to the storm warning imminently expected to hit the Red Sea coast and Nubian Desert. Ann’s boss, tall handsome Jonathan has just dropped his bombshell. The archaeological dig, Ann and her colleagues are enthusiastically absorbed in, has run out of funding, and it’s all down to entrepreneur Conrad Knight.
The local Bedouin Ababda, together with ecologists and conservationists, are up in arms...they don’t want Ann and her team digging near the designated national park. Ironically they want to preserve the forever changing desert landscape it as it is.
As the storm clouds gather in intensity, dark, enigmatic Conrad arrives to explain his decision. But Ann refuses to listen and despite his warning about the pending sandstorm, flees into the desert in search of the elusive Ptolemaic temple which would solve all their problems.
At the site, the storm catches up with Ann and she is forced to seek cover. Sanctuary arrives from an unexpected quarter and Ann is forced to question her heart. Should she trust it with this unfathomable rescuer dressed as Lawrence of Arabia?
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Sandstorm In My Heart - Faith Mortimer
SANDSTORM IN MY HEART
by
FAITH MORTIMER
A Romantic Novelette from the
Author of the Best Selling novels
A Very French Affair
On Christmas Hill
& The Seeds of Time
About the author:
Faith Mortimer: born in Manchester, England and educated in Singapore, Malaya and Hampshire, England. Qualified as a Registered nurse and later changed careers to oversee a number of travel and sport related companies.
Faith is married with a family. Once the children attended University, she decided to join them in reading for a Science degree. Faith obtained an Honours Science degree in 2005 and believes the dedication and stamina needed to sit for a degree while in full-time employment, gave her the confidence to finish writing her first novel.
She has now written and published 12 novels and a volume of short stories. All are available as eBooks from your favourite online book store. Also available as paperbacks.
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Acknowledgements
A Big Thank You to my editor Catherine and to my husband Chris for their invaluable assistance and patient support.
SANDSTORM IN MY HEART
by
FAITH MORTIMER
Copyright © Faith Mortimer 2014
The right of Faith Mortimer to be identified as author of this work
has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the
Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All Rights Reserved
No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication
may be made without written permission.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents originate from the writer’s imagination.
Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is purely coincidental.
Smashwords Edition
Published 2014
by Topsails Charter, Southampton
SANDSTORM IN MY HEART
A Romance
Faith Mortimer
Chapter 1
Ann couldn’t believe her ears. She frowned and looked away to keep her tears in check. Tears of frustration. She had worked so hard, and yet there was her boss, the director of the archaeological dig, telling her they were pulling out two days later and abandoning the site. It was a culmination of eighteen months’ toil under the hot and unrelenting Egyptian sun straight down the pan.
A fresh breeze tugged at her sunhat. She made a grab for it, but the thing flew off her head and bowled along the ground. Jonathan spun round and, in two long strides, caught it before it disappeared into the desert. He looked apologetic as he held the offending article out to her.
Thanks. I don’t suppose there’s any chance you’ll reconsider?
she asked, brushing the dust particles from the straw. It’s just that I’m positive we’re getting nearer.
He gave a resigned shrug of his shoulders and sighed. "Ann, how many times have I heard that in the last few weeks? The truth is, it’s not my decision. They don’t actually want us here. You’re aware that the immediate area is a designated national park, and whilst we’re only working on the edge of it, the ecologists and conservationists want to preserve everything. I’ve been fighting a losing battle since the New