Riddle of the Sphinx Hailey Piper Soon thereafter her country is

Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee

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Riddle of the Sphinx Hailey Piper Soon thereafter her country isFrom a daring escape over revolutionary Iran's Zagros Mountains, to the glittering night clubs of Paris; from the Caspian Sea to Wimbledon, from the halls of Princeton University to an exiled princess's palatial New York apartment, The Riddle of the Sphinx takes us on a dramatic journey in an epic and psychological novel of self discovery, sexual obsession, exile and destiny. Like Proustian characters trapped in a mental hologram, the novel explores