THE ARTIST & HER LOVER

<p>This fast-paced travel romance is <strong>Part II</strong> of a trilogy series of books. It's an <em>upmarket </em>romance involving a love triangle in the Sahara Desert.</p><p>Autumn Simmons an American and a '<em>naïve'</em> artist lives with her lover Colin Acieta in a chateau in Amalfi Italy -a seaside town with small bays picturesque cliffs and hundreds of uphill stone steps overlooking the Mediterranean Sea.</p><p>Acieta a photographer travels to the parched and barren Sahara Desert to rescue his siblings from a migrant trafficker. Yet his noble mission is thwarted when he is held hostage by local domestic terrorists.</p><p>To negotiate Acieta's release Autumn travels to the Sahara Desert. And there she meets Brahim Ghali a Muslim Berber dressed in ankle-length thobes and kufiyah headdresses who believes in polygamy and has a harem of women. </p><p>But Autumn is a '<em>limerence'</em> to Ghali and he becomes tragically obsessed with her.</p><p> </p><p style=text-align: center;><strong><em>Which of Two Sigma Males Will Win Autumn's Heart?</em></strong></p><p style=text-align: center;><strong><em>and</em></strong></p><p style=text-align: center;><strong><em>Will she return to Italy or remain in the Sahara?</em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p>The Author encourages readers to listen to Jesse Cook's instrumentals like <em>Closer to Madness Cascada and Baghdad </em>while reading the book to view the difference between Picasso's and Delaquoix's paintings of <em>The Women of Algiers</em> to more deeply immerse themselves in the Sahara setting of the novel. </p><p><em> </em></p><p><em>Author / Illustrator Edwina Louise Dorch won the American Writing Award for best inspirational novel in 2023 and was a finalist in the crime genre in 2024. She is a psychologist who teaches art therapy on a barrier island off the Coast of Florida. And her paintings are shown in galleries along the Florida A1A highway. </em></p>