Winds of Eden (38 page)

‘No, Michael.' She gripped his hand, hard. ‘Look at the children and the people with him.'

‘He's our brother.'

‘Not any more, Mikey,' unthinkingly she resorted to his childhood nickname. ‘He's not ours. He's made his choice.'

Mitkhal saw Hasan look up at Abdul's window. He saw Georgiana and Michael staring down.

Furja left the cabin and called to Hasan.

Hasan turned, smiled at her and followed her into the cabin but not before Mitkhal saw the look in his remaining eye. And Mitkhal knew. His friend was Hasan Mahmoud but Hasan Mahmoud had not quite forgotten Harry Downe – not yet.

Long Road to Baghdad

An epic novel of an incendiary love that threatened to set the desert alight as war raged between the British and Ottoman Empires.

Mesopotamia, 1914: in the Middle East tension is escalating between the British and the Arabs. Misfit Lieutenant Harry Downe is sent to negotiate a treaty with a renegade Bedouin Sheikh, Ibn Shalan, whose tribe is attacking enemy patrols in Iraq and cutting their oil pipelines.

Greedy for arms, Shalan accepts British weapons but, in return, Harry must take his daughter Furja to be his bride.

The secret marriage leads to a deep love, to the anger of Shalan and the disgust of Harry's fellow officers.

But war is looming, and the horrors of the battlefield threaten to destroy Harry's newfound happiness, and change his life and that of his closest friends for ever.

Long Road to Baghdad
 is a vivid, moving, historically accurate account of a conflict between East and Western

Empires, based on the wartime exploits of war hero Lieutenant Colonel Gerard Leachman.

The
Long Road to Baghdad
series
by
Catrin Collier

  
  

The Tsar's Dragons

The first of a trilogy based on the exploits of John Hughes, who founded a city in Russia in the 1800s

In 1869, Tsar Alexander II decided to drag Russia into the industrial age. He began by inviting Welsh businessman John Hughes to build an ironworks.

A charismatic visionary, John persuaded influential people to invest in his venture, while concealing his greatest secret – he couldn't even write his own name.

John recruited adventurers prepared to sacrifice everything to ensure the success of Hughesovka (Donetsk, Ukraine). Young Welsh men and women fleeing violence in their home country; Jews who have accepted Russian anti-Semitism as their fate and Russian aristocrats, all see a future in the Welshman's plans.

In a place where murderers, whores, and illicit love affairs flourish, 

The Tsar's Dragon
 is their story of a new beginning in Hughesovka, a town of opportunity.

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Catrin Collier
and other
Accent Press
titles, please visit

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Published by Accent Press Ltd – 2014

ISBN 9781783754243

Copyright © Catrin Collier 2014

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This is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author's imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental