Review: okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2014
This story begins as Averill, dressed as a ragged boy, is painting urns in a marketplace in Egypt.  A soldier hires her to accompany him across the desert to draw pictures and to be another set of ears while on his mission.  The tale bogs down for many chapters while they cross the desert.  The last part of the book does hold your interest and has some surprises.  The author made some jumps that I felt should have had more information.  I imagine the many pages devoted to the desert trek were put in to allow the reader to see how brilliant the artist was and to give Averill and her Captain time to fall in love.  The last part of the book was much better.