<DIV>Set in Transjordan just before the 1967 war with Israel, <b>Staircase of a Thousand Steps</b> is a "remarkably well-written...thoroughly absorbing novel" (<b>Arizona Daily Sun</b>) that takes us to a place where memory whispers like fear, where visions of a long-ago forbidden love affair haunt a precocious young girl <b>?</b> and where the flare of old rivalries can be as sudden as searing as the desert wind.</div>