Gabriel Sherlock arrives in Oman in 1982, fleeing shame and disaster
back home in Ireland, and begins an intense affair with a woman whom no
one else has seen. Locals insist she must be one of the jinn--a
supernatural being--but Gabriel refuses to buy into the folklore,
despite her sudden, unexplained disappearance. Twenty-six years later,
Irishwoman Thea Kerrigan lands in Muscat, chasing her own ghosts from
the past, and is approached by Gabriel, who believes she is his lost
lover. Certain that they have never met before, Thea is nonetheless
drawn to this deluded, and perhaps dangerous, stranger and the rumors
that surround him. "Sometimes, the sunniest settings have the darkest
shadows. Of Sea and Sand takes you to such a place, plays tricks with
light and time--and leaves you not knowing who is real: Us, or Them?
Fictional angels and vampires have had their time. Now it's the turn of
the jinn.--Tim Mackintosh-Smith