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She by H. Rider Haggard

Ludwig Horace Holly, is relaxing in his Cambridge rooms, when there is a knock at the door. It is his friend Vincey (M. L.Vincey Esquire) carrying an iron chest. As he enters Holly can see how ill he looks.

Vincey tells Holly he is dying, and asks him to look after his five-year-old son until he reaches the age of twenty-five. He also says, Leo is not to attend school but to be tutored at home and at the age of twenty-five, he must be given the iron chest to open.

As for Holly, he is to be well rewarded for taking on the Guardianship of Leo.

On Leo's twenty-fifth birthday, he is given the key to the chest. When he opens it, he finds a silver casket, and inside the casket is a letter, which tells of the Kingdom of Kôr, and his father's search for the Amahaggar people, a remote race.

Kôr is ruled by the white queen - a beautiful woman who is both destructive and tyrannical and who is said to have powers over the living and the dead.

Leo wants to find out if the story is true, so he and his two companions, set sail for Zanzibar, where they encounter Ayesha, the white queen - 'She-who-must-be-obeyed'.

A queen who has been waiting centuries for her murdered lover to arrive, and now he has, in the form of Leo...

'”She” is a story of romance, exploration, discovery and heroism, that has lost none of its power to enthrall.'

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