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When Isabella Wyndham-Brown returns to London to celebrate her twenty-first birthday, she anticipates nothing more than a ball in her honour and the right finally to direct her own life away from the restraints of her well-meaning but interfering relatives. But events almost immediately conspire against her. First she discovers that she cannot take control of her fortune until she is twenty-five and then she finds disturbing evidence that her father had a mistress. Nevertheless, there are compensations, including meeting her handsome French cousin and Peter Bennett, who saved her life in Egypt. But it is when she discovers that her father may have found the lost family treasure, the Dragonsheart diamond, that Bella's problems really begin...
On first meeting Adam Ellis, Kate Whitaker loathes him. As the spoilt daughter of an Edwardian Egyptologist, she enjoys humiliating her father's assistants on his desert digs and is looking forward to amusing herself with new prey. Adam, however, is made of sterner stuff. Has she finally met her match? Seven years later the pair meet again in London. Adam, now an archaeologist himself, accompanies Kate back to Egypt where her father is trying to find an ancient fabled statue known as the Scarlet Queen. And when Kate discovers that she has a rival for Adam's love, her troubles are only just beginning...