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. 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><em><strong>Which Of Two Sigma Males Will Win Autumn's Heart? </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>And </strong></em></p><p><em><strong>Will She Return To Italy Or Remain In The Sahara? </strong></em></p><p>The Author encourages readers to listen to Jesse Cook's instrumentals like C<em>loser 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>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.</p>