‎'‎"Where you staying‎?‎" the Bedouin asked‎.‎ "Why you not stay with me tonight ‎- in my cave‎?‎"‎'‎ Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen‎'‎s story of how a New Zealand‎-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman‎,‎ a Bedouin souvenir‎-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan‎.‎ It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad who convinced her that he was the man for her‎.‎ A life with Mohammad meant moving into his ancient cave and learning to love the regular tasks of baking shrak bread on an open fire and collecting water from the spring‎.‎ And as Marguerite feels herself becoming part of the Bedouin community‎,‎ she is thankful for the twist in fate that has led her to this contented life‎.‎ Marguerite‎'‎s light‎-hearted and guileless observations of the people she comes to love are as heart‎-warming as they are valuable‎,‎ charting Bedouin traditions now lost to the modern world‎.‎