Stolen Destinies

Oman 1959 - Pre oil wealth and under the old Sultan's tyrannical rule.

Young doctor James McRae is looking for adventure. He takes up a post at the British Consulate and finds a country riddled in witchcraft and medieval practices.

A forbidden encounter with the young wife of an elderly sheikh changes the course of his once carefree life forever.

Canterbury 1985 - Art student Charlotte Brett Sinclair is besotted by Marcus, her rugby player boyfriend.

When they marry and move to a villa in Muscat the future looks rosy.

Ambitious Marcus has a glittering career ahead in international banking.

But the excesses of the Middle East, and echoes from an untold past, conspire to bring about a very different destiny.

Sheikh's grandson Juma Al Ghafira was born in a mud fort in the desert.

Oil concessions granted on tribal lands bring unimagined prosperity - an English public school education and a Cambridge degree.

But when Juma's two worlds collide he is forced to choose between his duty and the woman he loves.