Could a sudden love just as suddenly die? Leah was reluctant to leave the mountain site where their plane had crashed. The hostile desert was not encouraging. "We could die out here," she argued.
But Reilly was part Indian. Strong and resourceful, he was confident they could survive the primitive conditions with relatively little hardship. Was this his attraction? His confidence and capability, coupled with the intimacy of their situation? Would their eventual return to civilization, as he predicted, sever the special bond between them?
