Valley of the Tall Chimneys

Sophie Madern, a successful freelance model, is invited to work with Ferdy Latour, her former employer and owner of a famous fashion house. She takes her brother, Paul, a diplomat, to the salon, where he sees and is attracted to Riba, a lovely but mercenary mannequin. The commercial photographs for Latour are taken by Jude Sagar, a man Sophie once loved but hoped she had forgotten. Sophie accepts a modelling assignment and travels to Istanbul, where, unexpectedly, she again meets Jude Sagar. And later, in Ankara, Paul Riba, Ferdy and the mysterious Mrs Demestre. A sequence of discomfiting and unexplained events culminate in Jude's invitation to Sophie to accompany him on a photographic expedition to the petrified, eerily beautiful, Goreme Valley. Here Sophie learns the truth and finds the valley's apparent tranquillity conceals fear, treachery and danger.