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"2021 IPNE Finalist, Literary Fiction 2021 Women's Book Awards Sarton Finalist, Historical Fiction Alice George is a headstrong young British woman who finds herself living among the Tuareg, a tribe of nomadic warriors. While the outside world faces the catastrophe of World War I, the Tuareg continue to crisscross the Sahara as a matrilineal society in which the men are veiled, and the women hold property--a world in which anything can happen. It is a world well suited to eighteen-year-old Alice, who discovers a life she could never live in corseted England. In 1917, Alice returns home to a world completely alien to the one she left in the Sahara. Her silence about that life is finally broken sixty years later when she receives a telegram announcing Abu has died in the desert. ""Who is Abu?"" her husband asks. ""My lover,"" she replies. Thus, begins a weeklong journey of revelation as Alice lays bare her secrets. Can Alice face her demons and open her heart more fully to the life she once lived in the Sahara--a life she has hidden from her husband and herself? Blue Desert is a story of exile, family secrets, and the power of love."

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"Celia Jeffries' work has appeared in numerous newspapers and literary magazines including Westview, Solstice Literary magazine, and Puerto del Sol, as well as the anthology ""Beyond the Yellow Wallpaper."" She has received grants from Turkey Land Cove Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and La Muse. Jeffries, who holds an MA from Brandeis, worked in news and educational publishing before earning an MFA from Lesley University. She has taught writing at all levels, from elementary to university and adult education. Her writing has been nurtured in the community of writers in Western Massachusetts, where she is honored to be on the steering committee of Straw Dog Writers Guild, and where she offers workshops at Pioneer Valley Writers Workshop. As a retired board-certified music therapist, licensed counselor, and veteran of the Michigan Opera and several community theaters, Jennifer Dixon has explored the power of words and music to motivate, inspire, provoke, soothe, and heal-all of which she brings to her work as an audiobook narrator. Even though she was born within the sound of Bow Bells in London England (now residing in the beautiful state of Michigan), Jennifer has a ""proper old-fashioned BBC sound, with American overtones,"" but can conjure up her cockney side if need be!"

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