SHE WAS THE TOAST OF

TWO CONTINENTS...

Leita Johnston was born and bred to

South Carolina gentility. But the turbulent winds

of a reckless destiny carried this headstrong

beauty from New World Society to the

Old--in Paris where she reigned, an uncrowned

queen in the fabled palaces of Louis Napoleon.

to Egypt, where she served, a slave in the

gilded seraglios of Cairo, the sensual toy of a

master determined to own her forevermore!

AND A PRISONER ON A THIRD!

Through her troubled life there were many men

But in her heart there was only one:

Colonel Breve Pinchon, the rugged soldier

she loved and lost so long ago; the man who

would find her once again, a stranger

separated by a veil of mystery