Rhoda Fair by Clarence Budington Kelland
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Overview: The Acclaimed Classic Of Adventure, Mysticism, Self-Discovery And Romance!
Her mother had been a criminal – did that mean she would become one too?
As she stood looking down at her mother’s coffin, Rhoda Fair could not stop wondering about her own future. Her mother had been the most famous confidence woman of the century, sought for by law enforcement officials around the world. When Rhoda was born her mother had retired to a small city and gone arrow-straight, without ever having been convicted because her crimes were carried off so perfectly.
As Rhoda drove home a growing fear engulfed her. Raised half in the underworld of her mother’s old friends and half in the law-abiding world of her mother’s new friends — to which did she belong? Was crime genetic? Was she fated to become an outlaw and felon like her mother? Or would she be able to walk the straight and narrow like the people she had grown up among?
As she answered the midnight knock, Rhoda never dreamed she was about to receive a visit from Jaunty Bailey. Jaunty, a gentleman jewel thief little older than she, who had been a childhood playmate, put Rhoda Fair’s dilemma to the test. Soon he had embroiled her in his most recent crime — and she was fleeing from him and the police.
As Rhoda Fair stood on the deck of the great ocean liner, she asked herself if her impulsive decision to set sail for what three great religions called the Holy Land (with Jaunty’s loot in her baggage) had been a wise one. On the ship across she had already encountered Paul Dare, a young man who had lost his professorship for scandalously stating what had seemed to him a simple, obvious truth. Dare had defended Rhoda, at the risk of his own life, from Jaunty, who had followed her on board seeking the jewels. Was her association with the criminal side of life going to cost Dare his life?
As Rhoda stared into the sad, compassionate, somehow overpowering eyes of El Ghafir, she knew that he, more than any other person she had ever met, might be able to help her unravel the riddle of her life. This man who seemed older than time itself. This man about whom clung an aura of mystery and magic unlike anything she had experienced before. A man who seemed to have people eager to do his bidding everywhere he wandered. A man who seemed to perform miracles as effortlessly as other men breathe.
As she walked through the jostling, canopied bazars, Jaunty Bailey and Peter Dare, each of whom made her heart beat and spin dreams of the future in different ways, something told her that one of the men was the man with whom she would ultimately shape her life. But which, the unprincipled thief or the professor who was his exact opposite?
Then when disaster struck and their lives were threatened on all sides, El Ghafir led Rhoda, Jaunty and Paul Dare on a perilous journey over deserts and mountains along a path that that seemed to reveal to each of them more of their true, hidden, inner self with each step they took … toward an end Rhoda Dare could never have imagined. It would take a final act of Magic before Rhoda Fair found the answers to all her questions.
Only Clarence Budington Kelland cold have conceived this unique classic of romance, suspense and adventure about a woman on a quest to discover the truth about herself.
Genre: Fiction > Romance
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