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From the back cover: "M.M. Kaye's impassioned new novel sweeps us off to another time, another place. In a time of violence we enter Zanzibar, a dangerous land drenched in languid, sensuous beauty. Into this lawless paradise comes Hero Athena Hollis, a young, proud, Boston bluestocking, whose noble mission is to reform the savage. But she is vulnerable to passion-and the insistent courtship of slave trader Captain Rory Frost sets her afire. Now she faces the heartbreaking choice between duty and love."
The thing that sets Kaye's writing apart is the author's dedication to immersing the reader into the moment of time in which the story exists. The political unrest of the time; the morals of the moment; the mode of dress; the relationships between the classes then; all are laid out within the context of the story, so one can live in the moment with the characters, rather than just observing them.
The thing that sets Kaye's writing apart is the author's dedication to immersing the reader into the moment of time in which the story exists. The political unrest of the time; the morals of the moment; the mode of dress; the relationships between the classes then; all are laid out within the context of the story, so one can live in the moment with the characters, rather than just observing them.
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