ARTIST & HER LOVER

This fast-paced travel romance is Part II of a trilogy series of books. It's an upmarket romance involving a love triangle in the Sahara Desert.Autumn Simmons, an American and a naive 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.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. But Autumn is a limerence to Ghali, and he becomes tragically obsessed with her. Which of Two Sigma Males Will Win Autumn s Heart?andWill she return to Italy or remain in the Sahara? The Author encourages readers to listen to Jesse Cook s instrumentals, like Closer to Madness, Cascada, and Baghdad, while reading the book, to view the difference between Picasso s and Delaquoix s paintings of The Women of Algiers to more deeply immerse themselves in the Sahara setting of the novel. 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.