The Artist & Her Lover: A VACATION TRAVEL ROMANCE (A Trilogy: Part II) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781665786195)

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 'naïve' 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.

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.