The Desert In The Dining Room - Volume 1 Author:Stuart W. Wells Come north of the Himalaya to the Taklamakhan desert where the Jinn have been released. Can Hassan and his friends save us from them? Captain Burnaby, a soldier serving in the British Army in Afghanistan in 1848 sacrifices himself to save two small children but finds that his life is anything but over. In a strange afterlife he finds him... more »self on the front line of a very different war where, alongside other heroes, he strives to protect slumbering children the world over from evil spirits. Somewhere in 19th Century Tajikistan, a young boy follows a caravan of soldiers into the desert but can't remember how he got there or where he came from. In present day England three children find themselves dreaming vivid dreams of a place in the desert where there is a great whirlwind of sand, countless Jinn and an ambitious warlord called Yakub Beg. And In 1865, to the north of the Himalaya, in a place called Kashgar, lives the real Yakub Beg: a man who will stop at nothing to achieve his worldly ambitions of riches and power - even if that involves doing a deal with the Jinn. All paths lead to the Taklamakan Desert, a place shrouded in choking storms of dust and sand, where an unspeakable evil awaits them all...« less