The Peacock Dance

1991. David Paramor, half-gypsy, failed priest and reluctant warrior. Beautiful captive Kaleela Bekas, spirited Yazidi girl. Running from Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the horrors of Desert Storm they find one another on the fringes of Europe, the Spanish hilltop town of San Amaro, where Saib, sometime desert prince, plots their downfall. As the Solstice explodes into fire and dance, Icarus Mendoza, prodigy and rebel, and his adopted mother Katarina unite with the charismatic To io, Duke of Montefrio to avert disaster. And a dying artist battles to survive as the Peacock King sends unexpected rain. This is the second in the Icarus Mendoza sequence of novels about a modern foundling.