Germaine Shames is author of the award-winning novels, Between Two Deserts and You, Fascinating You. Writing under the pen name Casper Silk (Hotel Noir, Echo Year), she has been compared to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Graham Greene and P.D. James "on steroids." As a foreign correspondent, Germaine Shames has written from six continents on topics ranging from the Middle East crisis to Aboriginal land rights, from the struggle to save the Amazon to the plight of street children. Her articles have appeared in National Geographic Traveler, Hemispheres, More and Success. A number of Shames' works have bee...