num_pages: 396
description: Lord Arden Winter, cool, shy, restless, only heir, frustrates his rich parents, seeks legendary racing mare String of Pearls. After the funeral of Lady Stanhope, her unacknowledged illegitimate daughter Zenia 25 agrees to guide him across the Arab desert if he will take her to her unknown father Michael Bruce in London. For months, she is a loyal servant, a ragged Bedouin boy. They save each others lives, until the night a prince sees her as a female, and condemns them to death. Historical Note that explorer Stanhope and younger lover Bruce were real.
language: English
title: The Dream Hunter
titlecomplete: The Dream Hunter
characters: Zenia Stanhope, Arden Mansfield, Viscount Winter
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, Romance, Adult, Regency, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance, Audiobook, Victorian
ratings_count: 1920
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: RITA Award by Romance Writers of America
category: Long Historical Romance & Best Romance of 1994
publisher: Penguin Berkley Sensation