検索キーワード： "George Sand" ミステリー・スリラー・サスペンス

After four trips to the Sahara and extensive historical research, David Ball crafted this sweeping adventure novel spanning two continents and 15 years. Set against a backdrop of the crumbling French Empire’s attempts to colonize the Sahara Desert, Empires of Sand follows the lives of two cousins who are raised as brothers but destined to become enemies. It is 1870, and France is at war with Prussia.

With his wife dead and three young children to raise, ploughman Germaine decides that the time has come to marry again. He embarks on a journey to meet a rich widow, Catherine Leonard, in a match that has been approved by his father-in-law; however, he finds her proud and vain and surrounded by other suitors. Germaine prefers the company of Marie, a young shepherdess from his own village, but she is insistent that she wants a younger, more suitable husband.

Герой повести молодой адвокат отправляется в замок Ионис, расположенный недалеко от Анжера, для того чтобы разрешить юридический спор проживающего там семейства. Дальнейшее развитие событий - это мистификация или хорошо разыгранный спектакль? Кто кукловод и какую цель он преследует?