Galilee Gold is a novel inspired by Daher el-Omar, the Bedouin King of eighteenth-century Galilee, who was willing to do anything to achieve prosperity in his region, including trading with pirates, taking another wife, or plotting to kill his own brother.
Enter Tamar of Aleppo; twenty years old, spoiled, beautiful, and sharp-witted who has joined a caravan of Jewish travelers to the Holy Land. The King, is so enamored with her and her golden hair, that he finds himself breaking his own rules and has her kidnapped. Tamar forges friendships among the Bedouin but she cannot make up her mind about the King.