A gritty crime thriller of desert kidnappings and police procedural blended with a whisper of magical realism. The terrorism novel, Stillness Dancing, offers something genuinely new in contemporary women's fiction. Lilliane has always been drawn by the adventure of the desert - its emptiness, its eerie beauty and its people. When she takes the trip of a lifetime to a Bedu camp, however, she finds herself ensnared in a complex web of crime, blood feuds, terrorism and ancient spirits. Karim is trying to find his path in the material world and to marry the girl of his dreams. His soul cries out for the spiritual path of his fathers but he finds himself inexorably drawn into the organised crime sweeping the Sinai. Lilliane's and Karim's stories collide as their individual journeys to a new future are swept aside by kidnapping at the hands of a psychotic terrorist. While the politically constrained Captain Al Aswani struggles to rescue them, Lillianne and Karim, brutalised, captive and bereft, must find their own ways to survive. This desert thriller, Stillness Dancing, is a taut, contemporary women's fiction which explores the fractures between east and west, male and female, spiritual and materialistic, and the regional conflicts of a land caught between the ancient and the modern. Blending a touch of the magical with a tense desert kidnapping, this novel shows how the hardest paths lead to the deepest wells. Author Stephen Godden calls this "a stunning suspense... filled with the mystery of the desert and the journeys of the spirit, plus blood, mayhem, and a truly nasty villain. Buy it, read it, tell people about it." Review site Fanboys Anonymous says: "From Stillness Dancing I've learned that well-written books can truly suck you in. Erwin knows how to create characters and conversation, and she most definitely knows how to create a villain." "Jae Erwin does a wonderful job of presenting the clash of cultures that tear people apart and the spirit that glues them ba