The Scent of the Distant Island

Sarah Lark writes as Christina Rey!

Destiny awaits her in a fairytale palace by the sea.

Liverpool, the Royal School for the Blind, 1854. Eve, a young teacher, is offered an extraordinary position. The Sultan of Oman and Zanzibar seeks a governess for his blind daughter Nunu. At 25, Eve doesn't take long to make up her mind. After all, she’s an orphan and there is nothing in England to hold her back. In a palace by the sea, she gets to know a completely new world. When the sultan dies, however, a power struggle erupts over his succession. Eve retreats to Nunu’s spice plantation in the country’s interior, where she continues to develop Nunu's talent for using scents and composing fragrances. Yet their peaceful time together ends abruptly when they both fall in love with the same man.

Christina Rey makes dream destinations come to life – the natural environment, culture, and atmosphere of distant lands

A captivating page-turner that takes us to faraway Zanzibar

Rights sold to: Finland and Netherlands