Faith's earliest sheik romance, so far as I can tell. This is significant because she makes numerous factual errors about the setting, language, and Islam. Example: "We think differently than you do. We worship different gods" (17) explains the hero, Rashid Ben Hasir, presenting Allah and God as different deities (while any Muslim would tell you they're not). Another example: Faith has an imam delivering the call to prayer (60), which they don't (muezzins do). She tends not to make such basic mistakes in her later work.

This is one of Faith's novels set in Morocco (like her later Desert Song, 1987). Later, Faith began inventing countries: 'Abdu Resaba' in Desert Man, 'Jahan' in Midnight Man (both 1994).