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    Sandstorm In My Heart
    Sandstorm In My Heart
    Sandstorm In My Heart
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    Sandstorm In My Heart

    By Faith Mortimer

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    "Sandstorm In My Heart" 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?
     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTopsails Charter
    Release dateApr 30, 2014
    ISBN9781498959810
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      Sandstorm In My Heart - Faith Mortimer

      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.

      For more information about Faith and her writing please follow on Facebook. www.facebook.com/FaithMortimer.Author

      http://twitter.com/FaithMortimer

      Website: www.faithmortimerauthor.com

      Where Faith writes a regular blog about all manner of things!

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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.

      NOVELS in the Women’s Literature and A Very.....Affair" Series

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      'HARVEST - BOOK 2 of THE CROSSING' Continues from Book 1. Action-Adventure full of romantic suspense.

      ‘A VERY FRENCH AFFAIR’. Romance, Heartache and Suspense set on the beautiful south coast of France.

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      ‘‘ON CHRISTMAS HILL (A SEASONAL AFFAIR)’ – Romance blossoms at Christmastide.

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      ‘A VERY ENGLISH AFFAIR’ - A Romantic Novel to tug at your heartstrings.

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      ‘NOT JUST FOR CHRISTMAS’ - A Very Seasonal Affair

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      ‘A VERY DISTANT AFFAIR’ – The latest ‘Women’s Literature’ Novel in the ‘ A Very .....Affair’ series ..

      ‘SANDSTORM IN MY HEART’ Romance in the Desert –A Novelette

      ‘THE BAMBOO MIRROR’. An eclectic collection of short stories, covering subjects including: ghosts, murder, mystery, romance and greed and introducing Diana Rivers the intrepid amateur sleuth

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      SANDSTORM IN MY HEART

      by

      FAITH MORTIMER

      Copyright © Faith Mortimer 2014

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      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.

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      All Rights Reserved

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      No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication

      may be made without written permission.

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      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.

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      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

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