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Making a Medieval Marriage Law Work For You
Lynne Graham's The Desert Sheikh's Captive Wife centres around arrogant Sheikh Rashad, doe-eyed Tilda Crawford, and the endless misunderstandings that led to their break-up five years ago. Unfortunately for Tilda, her family is financially indebted to Rashad so Tilda swallows her pride and pays a visit to her somewhat creepy ex-boyfriend. But he is only open to collecting payment from her as a concubine in a faraway desert land.
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The Plane Crash That Led to Hot Desert Nooky..
In Isabel French's Beauty and the Sheikh, Kristen Jameson is a stunning blonde with a
shy disposition and an impossibly slim figure. Even more impossibly, she
is a twenty-four year old public relations executive with a New York firm who
has never once slept with a man.
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How a Pretend Wedding Became the Real Thing
In A Bed of Sand by Laura Wright, Rita Thompson decides to plan a fake wedding without
inviting the fake groom. This brilliant plan is conconcted as a means of reuniting
aliented family members. Unfortunately, however, the fake groom actually shows up, all
dressed up and ready to go.
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The Sheik Who Loved Me: A Review
Loreth Anne White's The Sheik Who Loved Me is the engaging story of a lonely widower,
Sheik David Rashid, and a mysterious woman who enters his life when she washes ashore
his private island. After finding her limp body on the beach, the sheik gathers her into
his arms and brings her into his house.and into the private world he shares with his young
daughter, Kamilah.
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What Makes a Sheikh Romance Hot?
Why are these romance novels so fascinating to readers? Is it the exotic desert setting,
a dramatic rescue from the enemy, circumstances that lead to an impromptu royal wedding,
or the flowing robes worn by the handsome and masculine sheikh? There are many reasons that
make these novels the hottest in the genre!
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Sour-faced Parents Who Suddenly Show Up Can Really Ruin the Mood
In The Sheik & the Princess in Waiting by Susan Mallery, Emma Kennedy discovers
that the "pretend" wedding ceremony and honeymoon she and Reyhan had in the Caribbean
six years ago was, in fact, real. But she had no idea that her "pretend" husband, is
actually Prince Reyhan: the son of the king of Bahania. The monarch sends two men to
retrieve Emma from Dallas and asks her to spend two weeks with Reyhan before he
will allow their marriage to be annulled. Then, toward the middle of the book the unthinkable happens...
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Being Sold for a Bride Price May Not Be as Bad as it Sounds!
Polly Barrington has heard her father, Ernest, tell the story a hundred times: thirty years ago while exploring the
wilds of Dharein, he saved the life of King Reija by pouncing on him when bullets began to
fly from a warring tribe. In a grand gesture of gratitude to brave Ernest, the king vowed
that his firstborn son would marry Ernest's firstborn daughter.
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The Indecent Proposal That Became a Marriage Proposal
In the prologue of the disturbingly-titled Sold to the Sheikh by Miranda Lee, Prince Ali of Dubar
is completely obsessed with Charmaine the supermodel...and just a little bit creepy. Almost a year after
getting harshly rejected by the fair beauty, he resurfaces in her life so he can bid five million
dollars during a charity auction to win a dinner date with her.
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A Career Leads to Desert Love..
In Desert Man by Barbara Faith, Josie McCall is a tall, slender redhead,
working as a nurse for the International Health Organization in Guatemala when she meets
Prince Kumar Ben Ari. Kumar becomes smitten with the beauty as the two of them attend the
wedding of mutual friends in the United States. But Josie shows a lack of interest in the
prince, and thinks only of returning to Guatemala to continue
her work.
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Foiled Escape Plans!
In The Jewelled Caftan and Burning Love, Rosalind (Ross) Lindsay and Temple DuPlessis
Longworth are slender blonde beauties, who find themselves under the watchful eyes of manly,
brooding Sheikhs. Neither is very successful when they attempt to escape
the desert camps of their seductive captors.
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How a Wedding Ceremony Remained a Secret From the Bride
In The Sheik's Secret Bride, Liana Archer is a single mother from San Bernadino when,
from an airplane, she is whisked away to the palace of Malik Khan, Crown Prince of El Bahar.
As their romance progresses, Malik takes her on a trip to the desert. Upon his arrival, he
immediately notices that the leader of the nomad tribe, Bilal, has made arrangements for an
elaborate desert wedding, instead of a welcoming ceremony.
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Sometimes Sheikhs Can Be Really Nice Guys!
Some romance novel Sheikhs just don't fit the stereotype. Not all of them are quiet,
brooding males who only start to warm up half-way through the story. Cases in point: Michael
Hassan of The Sheik's Mistress and Rafik Harun of Taming the Sheik.
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What Happens When a Sheikh Marries the Wrong Twin?!
In Promised to a Sheik, Sheik Omar Al Abdar, ruler of the Middle East country of Gaspar,
decides it's time for him to take a bride. Thus, he makes an impromptu trip to Texas, to
propose to his pen-pal and one-time cotillion dance partner, Elizabeth Fiona Carson.
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Sheikh Kahlil al-Assad: The Meanest Sheikh in all of Fictional Arabia
In The Sheikh's Wife, by Jane Porter, Bryn has been divorced from Kahlil al-Assad for three
years--at least that's what she thinks. In the process of moving on with her life in the United
States, she has become engaged to bald, bespectacled Stanley, in order to provide financial
stability for her young son Ben. But when Kahlil suddenly appears at her doorstep, he drops the
bomb that the two of them aren't actually divorced.
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When a Plot for Revenge Blossoms into Romance
In The Sheikh's Revenge, Sharif al Kader is daunting, compelling and really ticked off that his
bride-to-be has run off to marry an English pilot. With revenge on his mind, he decides to
even the score by abducting the pilot's beautiful sister, Leah.
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Is the Chauvinism of Lord Ali Ben Hari Behind Him?
An Interview with the Sheikh
Ali Ben Hari is Barbara Faith's Lord of the Desert, but many have referred to the
thirty-six year old prince of Kashkiri as "Chauvinist of the Desert". Undoubtedly his
arrogance towards women was an initial turn-off for his future bride, the beautiful Genevieve
Jordan, but once she moved into the harem of his government palace in Kashkiri to help plan an
international conference, things quickly heated up between the two.
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Let's get married, have a baby...but just stay together
platonically?
"Why did Ash Saalem have to be so annoyingly gorgeous?" Karen Rawlins, ice cream shop
counter girl, asks herself in Expecting the Sheikh's Baby. Fortunately for her, he's
also quite smitten with her and is intrigued--and senses an erotic challenge--when he
discovers that she is trying to conceive a baby, but not the old-fashioned way.
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