Paperback. Pub Date: 1994 Pages: 224 Publisher: the HarperTeen In an ancient Arab Nation. One woman dares to be different.Buran can not - Buran will not-sit quietly at home and wait to BE married to the man her father chooses. Determined to use her skills and earn a fortune. she instead disguises herself as a boy and travels by camel caravan to a distant city. There. she maintains her masculine disguise and establishes a successful business. The city's crown prince comes often to her shop. and soon Buran finds herself falling in love. But if she reveals to Mahmud that she is a woman. she will lose everything she has worked for.