A slave trader sees an opportunity to take over a Mideast country. Fawaaz's simple plan begins with a fanatic placed within a rain-delayed airliner at JFK. Fawaaz's only problem? His fanatic is sitting across the aisle from Eve Stecher. Eve, the 23 year-old widow of her bodyguard-husband, is building on inherited wealth towards even greater financial success. A beautiful, but driven Hispanic woman, she is on her way to yet another business meeting in Paris. But on this flight she must use--not her business skills--but skills learned from her deceased bodyguard-husband. Skills that result in murder charges and jail; wet, torn, expensive clothing now her only possession. The story of a physically strong, but troubled young woman. Strengthened in spirit by a forced stay within Saudi Arabia's vast Rub' al-Khali desert . . . but soon tested by an unlikely man, and the coming greatest trial of her young life. ..........a plot with intrigue and twists you never see coming.