Desert Kings Boxed Set: Books 1-3 by Diana Fraser

Author:Diana Fraser [Fraser, Diana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Anthologies, Contemporary, Multicultural, Collections & Anthologies, Multicultural & Interracial
Amazon: B01DR3VSO8
Publisher: Bay Books
Published: 2016-04-01T18:30:00+00:00

After an afternoon of pacing her rooms, Lucy was sitting on the bed, her head in her hands, there was a knock at the door. She leaped up to answer it and found a weary Razeen standing there, hands thrust in pockets, eyes guarded.

“Prepare yourself for a journey. I think I may have found her.”

“Where? Is she all right? Tell me!”

“I don’t know the details. Just a lead. Get your things.”

Lucy had already prepared her bag and within minutes she was following Razeen down to the garages. They were soon roaring across the desert in a four-wheel drive, followed by another vehicle containing his bodyguards.

Lucy glanced repeatedly at Razeen, willing him to speak. But his lips were clamped together in an expression of grim determination. She followed his gaze out to the flat desert—more a stony plain than the sand dunes she’d imagined—and the distant mountains that were a startling orange in the afternoon sun. There was nothing but emptiness for miles upon miles. Wherever their destination, she could see it would be a long journey. She just prayed that Maia was all right, that Razeen was silent because of his anger with her, not because anything bad had happened to Maia.

The four-wheel drive revved and roared over the bumpy ground and she clung to the door handle. The air conditioning was on low and it was warm and dry in the vehicle. She drank from her water bottle but it did nothing to ease her discomfort. She couldn’t bear the tension any longer.

“Razeen, you may be disappointed in me, you may hate me, but you have to tell me. What do you know?” Her voice was cracked with emotion.

He didn’t answer immediately, merely focused on the dirt road ahead.

She took a deep breath. “Please. Give me something. Tell me she’d not dead.”

He glanced at her, but the expression in his eyes wasn’t reassuring. “She’s not dead.”

Lucy fell back against the seat with relief. “Thank God.”

“I have accounted for all of my party except for one of the domestic staff at the Lodge with whom Maia was friendly. The man is a Bedouin from the place we are going to. I’m hoping he may be able to tell us where she is.”

Panic filled her. “Why? Does he have a criminal record? What kind of man is he?”

“I would hardly employ someone at the Lodge if he had a criminal record.” Razeen shrugged. “By all accounts he is hard worker, an intelligent man, who returned to his home around the same time my party of friends left.”

“And you’re sure they left without her?”

“Positive. I checked with them all. My friends all confirm she arrived here with them, that she stayed at the Lodge with them, but she didn’t leave with them.”

“You contacted them! Why didn’t you tell me? What did they say?”

“It appears she took a liking to the waiter, Mohammed, who I haven’t been able to contact.”

Lucy let out a breath she didn’t know she’d been holding. “Waiter? Oh no, that’s not possible.

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