The Desert Called Her Home (Paperback or Softback)

In the year 1850, a 4 year old girl arrives in England aboard a merchant ship alone and frightened. Layla is placed in an orphanage where she is treated badly because of her dark skin and black hair. In the orphanage she meets another young girl Rosa and for twelve long years Rosa and Layla endure the discrimination from the orphanage nuns until One fateful night, they run away and board a ship bound for Persia. When they arrive in the city of Shiraz, Layla uncovers the truth that will change everything. She is no orphan. She is the lost princess of a distant Persian kingdom one torn apart by the loss of her mother and her disappearance. Now, she must return to the desert kingdom she was stolen from... to a father who believed her dead, and to a kingdom struggling to survive. Along the way Layla's path crosses with Akbar, a hardened assassin sent by the bandit king to infiltrate the Sultan's army and get close to the royal family. Join Layla on this journey of discovery as she steps into her new role as princess and discovers who Fate has meant her to be.