Special Author's Cut Updated Edition of Desert RoseOriginally Published as a Bantam Loveswept (# 555)The secret police of a renegade Middle East nation hold two politically sensitive prisoners separate from the others... Marine Corps aviator David Winslow and humanitarian relief worker Emma Hamilton are the sole inmates of a special cellblock. They bond emotionally and sensually, despite being housed in separate cells, as they endure interrogations, torture, and the constant threat of death. When fate unexpectedly liberates them from the prison compound, their dash for freedom includes the seductive culmination of weeks of emotional foreplay. But once they flee the country, David doubts Emma's certainty that she is in love with him. He fears that she feels only gratitude.