When young Feyra wakes up late for her morning doctor ’rounds’ in the Sheikh’s harem she doesn’t realize that her tardiness will have dire consequences.
As a female doctor to the Sheikh’s mother, Feyra is responsible for her health at all costs.
When she arrives in the Sheikh’s mother’s chambers she finds her delirious and raving.
As suddenly as she has taken ill, she is perfectly fine with little recollection of the terrifying delirium that over took her not moments before.
Feyra immediately suspects a poison and quickly deduces which poison.
Sadly there is no antidote for the poison and the Sheikh’s mother dies but not before revealing a tragic secret and a cryptic sinister plot. She tells Feyra that she must travel to Venice, her homeland and stop the bringer of death.
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On the storm coastline of Cornwall lies Mount Mellyn, a magnificent old family home. The Mount is home to the TreMellyn family, Connan and his daughter Alvean.
If you have managed to make it through fifth grade world history, you probably have heard the name Bonaparte at least once.
On the scarcely populated islands of Scotland’s Outer Hebrides islands, lies the deserted remains of a once great house–Bhalla House.
In Edwardian London, change is on the horizon. War is eminent and the days of the strict Victorian caste system and societal expectations are on their way out….the modern era is upon the world.
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