Information about the author

Katherine Webb was born in 1977 and grew up in rural Hampshire before reading history at Durham University. She has since spent time living in London and Venice, and now lives in Wiltshire. Having worked as a waitress, au pair, personal assistant, book binder, library assistant, seller of fairy costumes, and housekeeper, she now writes full time.

Blurb
Joan Seabrook, a fledgling archaeologist, has fulfilled a lifelong dream to visit Arabia by traveling from England to the ancient city of Muscat with her fiancé, Rory. Desperate to escape the pain of a personal tragedy, she longs to explore the desert fort of Jabrin and unearth the treasures it is said to conceal. But Oman is a land lost in time - hard, secretive, and in the midst of a violent upheaval - and gaining permission to explore Jabrin could be challenging.