STAIRS OF SAND

A woman's battle against her hatred of the desert, as she finds, not only a man to love, but a man to teach her the value of spiritual things. Not a ""western"" in the old Zane Grey sense, but a physical and spiritual romance against a Southern California desert background; a strange triangle, and a complex situation involving an unhappy marriage, a new-found brother-in-law, and unscrupulous connivings to get control of some property. There's a killing and a kidnapping and a rescue. Average.