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This is a story of a young beautiful Jewish woman, trained as a gemologist, who experiences the excitement and intrigue of the world of diamonds and murder in the African Desert. She is accused of murdering the family who owns the Alonso Diamond Mining Company and whose home she had just left ten days earlier. On her return to New York City by way of ocean liner and in the course of being arrested for murder she meets a young reporter by the name of Stephen Hauk. It is a story of deep love and emotion with determination to succeed under all circumstances that will leave you in awe of Emmy...

Tenía que casarse con el jeque... Katrina había sido rescatada en mitad del desierto por un hombre a caballo que la había llevado a su lujosa morada. A pesar de la atracción que había entre ellos, el jeque seguía pensando que Katrina no era más que una prostituta... Pero no podía dejarla con otros hombres, así que para protegerla tenía que casarse con ella. Entonces él descubrió que era virgen... Y eso lo cambiaba todo. Ahora Katrina tendría que ser su esposa de verdad.

Paco, o alcalde de Santorén, unha vila da Costa Morte, sofre un pesadelo pola morte do cabo Agapito, a quen atoparon na corredoira do monte coa cabeza desfeita por tres disparos. Nesa noite, Paco recordaba o que lle dixera Lucía, cando os dous eran militantes dun partido clandestino formado por a penas un cento de revolucionarios: “deixar de ser novo era cifrar as aspiracións dunha vida non en salvar a Patria, senón en chegar a alcalde dunha vila de segunda”. Podería ser certo, pero para este médico, dedicado á actividade política, a vida tampouco lle ía tan mal, despois de...

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