While staying at Lady Merrill? s French Riviera villa, flame haired and beautiful American heiress Nevada van Arden passes her time bycasually breaking the hearts of her many ardent suitors ? particularly that of young David, Lord Merrill. When his uncle, intrepidexplorer and diplomat Tyrone Strome, overhears her cruel humiliationof his lovelorn nephew, he resolves to teach this ? vixen? a lesson ? and save David from his misery. Tyrone Strome abducts Nevada, spiriting her away in his luxury yacht to Morocco. There thereluctant voyager, swaddled in native clothing, is terrified by theperils of the Sahara and its nomadic tribesmen. But, as they flee from certain death or worse, they find sanctuary in a beautiful hiddenvalley, a second Garden of Eden, where to Nevada? s surprise, lovebegins to blossom in the desert.
