Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her when she marries Mason McPhee. But nothing can prepare her for the world she and Mason step into when he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia. In the gated compound of Abqaiq, Gin and Mason are given a home, a houseboy to cook their meals, and a gardener. But when a young Bedouin woman is found dead, washed up on the shores of the Persian Gulf, the one person Gin trusts is nowhere to be found.
"Starred Review. Barnes deftly teases humanity out of corruption and hypocrisy, and her language is finely wrought and her pacing masterful..."
Publishers Weekly
"Barnes writes poetically and intensely about personal conflict and subtly informs the reader about continuing Western misunderstandings of Middle Eastern culture."
