The greatest traitor may be her heart . . . One man will die, one man will rise, and one girl will change the Araby sands forever. Alaina must put down her quill and her healer's bag to take up the staff of war when she flees the wazir's rose perfume and court gardens to seek refuge with a prince of the sands. Foiled in her desire to rise as a renowned scribe in the court of the Caliph, Alaina finds herself tending an ailing sheik,...