Maria had a shocking childhood in France before her mother brought her to the United States. After her mother remarried their life was good until her mother's death. Maria's stepfather a scientist went to Africa and vanished. When no one else would Maria went by herself to find him in a country about which she knew nothing.</p><P> Of course there is the cannibal tribe! Maria and a prince are drawn together by extreme dangers. How do they end up in Arabia? What about her stepfather?</p>