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Keď Celia Nolanová dostane od manžela nečakaný darček k narodeninám, jej radosť nepozná hraníc. Veď po útulnom vidieckom dome v pokojnom kúte túžili obaja odjakživa. Vražda realitnej agentky, ktorá dom predala jej manželovi, však nečakane spustí celú lavínu dramatických udalostí spojených so zážitkom z Celiinho detstva. Hoci sa Celia usiluje udržať svoju minulosť čo najdlhšie v tajnosti, tieň podozrenia dopadá predovšetkým na ňu a závisí len od jej vytrvalosti, či sa jej podarí nájsť pravého vinníka, vyrovnať sa s traumou z detstva a najmä nedovoliť, aby vrah dokonal svoje dielo pomsty a ohrozil ju i jej najbližších.

‘Where you staying?’ the Bedouin asked. ‘Why you not stay with me tonight—in my cave.’ He seemed enthusiastic. And we were looking for adventure." Thus begins the story of how Marguerite van Geldermalsen—a New Zealand-born nurse—became the wife of Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller of the Manaja tribe, and lived with him and their children in a community of 100 families in the ancient caves of Petra in Jordan. Marguerite and a friend were traveling through the Middle East in 1978 when she met the charismatic Mohammad and decided that he was the man for her. Their home was a lofty 2,000 year-old cave carved into the red rock of a hillside. She became the resident nurse and learned to live like the Bedouin—cooking over fires, hauling water on donkeys, and drinking sweet black tea—and over the years she became as much of a curiosity as the cave-dwellers to tourists. This is her extraordinary story.

When evidence surfaces in London and Milan of a billion dollar conspiracy at the heart of the world's financial system, the chief suspects are a government banker, the Mafia and a merchant bank. Undercover agent, Sarah Jensen finds herself in a "nest of vipers".