![]() They head over to the small village of St. They scour the along the coast of Dover for many hours until one of the other ships signal over that a man who is alive has washed ashore. He then calls in three more ships to help with the search and they find several corpses of other men. Exasperated with the captain's refusal, she motivates him by reminding him of Mr Ambrose's high social standing as a powerful and important financial magnate. Lilly protests and the captain annoyedly retorts that it is not the Waterguard's responsibility to look for missing people. When the captain informs her that they are giving up the search and heading back, he emphasises that that the missing man cannot have survived dehydration or the ocean's glacier temperature. On the North Sea, Lilly relentlessly searches for Mr Ambrose for five days with Captain Crockford of the Waterguard following the Urania's shipwreck. ![]() Is the desert's heat enough to melt the cold heart of Britain's richest financier? Lilly Linton finds this out the hard way: in the shadow of the pyramids, she and her boss, cold, calculating Mr Ambrose, must face death and danger together. Boundaries break down, and you find yourself doing things that you would never, ever have imagined. In the desert, an instant turns life into death and hate into love. ![]()
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