Download or read book Desert Prince Defiant Virgin written by Kim Lawrence and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As heir to the throne, Prince Tair Al Sharif is driven by duty to his country, and indulges in women on a mistress-only basis. Beige-wearing, bespectacled Molly James is certainly not the kind of woman he usually beds. But Tair is outraged to be told that dowdy Molly is actually a seductress in disguise! She needs to be stopped! Taking her as a captive to the desert, he discovers this Miss Mouse is innocent—in every way. Now Tair wants her…as his bride!

Download or read book Desert Prince Defiant Virgin written by Kim Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Desert Prince Defiant Virgin written by Kim Lawrence and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Molly is from England, visiting the desert kingdom of Zarhat to meet her step-brother, Prince Taliq, for the first time. Unsure of what to expect, Molly meets another prince at the airport, falling in love at first sight while gazing into his blue eyes. Prince Tair is from a neighboring kingdom--and is also Taliq's cousin. Tair falls in love with Molly, as well, but not knowing her relationship with Taliq, he mistakenly assumes the two are intimate after finding them alone together. Devastated, he devises a plot to break up the two--by kidnapping Molly and taking her deep into the desert...

Download or read book Royal Affairs written by Sarah Morgan and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheik's Virgin Princess by Sarah Morgan Karim, Sultan of Zangrar, sought a gentle and obedient bride. What he got was a defiant, feisty wife with fire in her eyes! She couldn't be a virgin, she was a rebel princess who wouldn't be tamed! But the marriage contract couldn't be broken and their wedding vows had to be sealed! And then the sultan discovered Princess Alexandra was in fact an innocent The Desert King's Virgin Bride by Sharon Kendrick As Sheikh of Kharastan, Malik has no time for distractions. But when Sorrel an Englishwoman in his care wants to explore the pleasures of the west, Malik decides he must be the one to teach her the ways of seduction! Malik wants Sorrel, but he will not dishonour her. Yet, as Sheikh, he is expected to marry and his bride must be pure. Is the answer to make Sorrel his virgin queen? Desert Prince, Defiant Virgin by Kim Lawrence As heir to the throne, Prince Tair Al Sharif is driven by duty to his country and indulges in women on a mistress–only basis. Quiet and demure Molly James is certainly not the kind of woman he usually beds. But Tair is outraged to be told that dowdy Molly is actually a seductress in disguise! She needs to be stopped! Taking her as a captive to the desert, he discovers this demure woman is innocent in every way. Now Tair wants her...as his bride!

Download or read book Six Sizzling Sheikhs written by Kate Hewitt and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheikh's Love-Child -- Kate Hewitt Lucy Banks has arrived in the desert kingdom of Biryal with a secret. Seeing Sheikh Khaled -- the man who loved and left her -- in his royal palace, Lucy is shocked by his barbaric magnificence. Although he frightens her and wants to run away, they're bound forever...for he is the father of her son. Desert Prince, Defiant Virgin -- Kim Lawrence Prince Tair Al Sharif has his duty to his country and indulges in mistresses only. Bespectacled Molly James is not the kind of woman he usually beds. Taking her as a captive to the desert, he discovers she is innocent -- in every way. Now Tair wants her...as his bride! Master Of The Desert -- Susan Stephens Sheikh Ra'id Al Maktabi mastered the wild desert out of necessity. But the sexy stowaway who clambered onto his yacht he'll tame for fun and assumes that socialite Antonia Ruggiero is used to being pampered. But on his boat, Ra'id is the master. So he'll put her to work clearing the decks and after hours pleasure her in his bed ... At The Sheikh's Bidding -- Chantelle Shaw Erin Maguire's adopted son is the heir to a desert kingdom? Now they're going to Qubbah with little Kazim's uncle, the arrogant Zahir bin Kahlid al Muntassir -- who insists Erin marry him so that his nephew will remain in Qubbah! Zahir will have a very ordinary virgin bride in his bed on his wedding night! Desert Prince, Expectant Mother -- Olivia Gates Crown Prince Faress Aal Rasheed, a talented surgeon, is attracted to Larissa McPherson. From the first moment she saw him, Larissa was overwhelmed. A volunteer surgical trainer for the Global Aid Organisation Larissa has come to Faress' country looking for answers for her unborn child...never expecting to fall in love... The Desert Prince's Proposal -- Nicola Marsh Time is running out for Prince Samman al Wali! To be crowned King, he must marry. He has rejected his advisors' suggestions...then is captivated by a pair of honey-coloured eyes and chooses Bria for his bride! But Bria Green is an intelligent, independent, modern woman. She's sure that the powerful prince's heady kisses won't change her mind!

Download or read book Six Sizzling Sheikhs 6 Book Box Set written by Chantelle Shaw and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 1181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheikh's Love–Child – Kate Hewitt Lucy Banks has arrived in the desert kingdom of Biryal with a secret. Seeing Sheikh Khaled – the man who loved and left her – in his royal palace, Lucy is shocked by his barbaric magnificence. Although he frightens her and wants to run away, they're bound forever...for he is the father of her son. Desert Prince, Defiant Virgin – Kim Lawrence Prince Tair Al Sharif has his duty to his country and indulges in mistresses only. Bespectacled Molly James is not the kind of woman he usually beds. Taking her as a captive to the desert, he discovers she is innocent – in every way. Now Tair wants her...as his bride! Master Of The Desert – Susan Stephens Sheikh Ra'id Al Maktabi mastered the wild desert out of necessity. But the sexy stowaway who clambered onto his yacht he'll tame for fun and assumes that socialite Antonia Ruggiero is used to being pampered. But on his boat, Ra'id is the master. So he'll put her to work clearing the decks and after hours pleasure her in his bed ... At The Sheikh's Bidding – Chantelle Shaw Erin Maguire's adopted son is the heir to a desert kingdom? Now they're going to Qubbah with little Kazim's uncle, the arrogant Zahir bin Kahlid al Muntassir – who insists Erin marry him so that his nephew will remain in Qubbah! Zahir will have a very ordinary virgin bride in his bed on his wedding night! Desert Prince, Expectant Mother – Olivia Gates Crown Prince Faress Aal Rasheed, a talented surgeon, is attracted to Larissa McPherson. From the first moment she saw him, Larissa was overwhelmed. A volunteer surgical trainer for the Global Aid Organisation Larissa has come to Faress' country looking for answers for her unborn child...never expecting to fall in love... The Desert Prince's Proposal – Nicola Marsh Time is running out for Prince Samman al Wali! To be crowned King, he must marry. He has rejected his advisors' suggestions...then is captivated by a pair of honey–coloured eyes and chooses Bria for his bride! But Bria Green is an intelligent, independent, modern woman. She's sure that the powerful prince's heady kisses won't change her mind!

Download or read book Desert Prince s Defiant Bride written by Julieanne Howells and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julieanne Howells entertains with this passionate desert romance in her stunning debut for Harlequin Presents! A royal ruse… …or a royal wedding? A pretend engagement to the future king of Nabhan wasn’t part of Lily Marchant’s plan for proving her brother’s innocence, but brooding Crown Prince Khaled is quite insistent. The simmering chemistry they share makes playing his fiancée in public easy—and resisting temptation in private nearly impossible! Impetuous Lily couldn’t be further from appropriate as a desert bride! Even so, Lily makes Khaled feel more alive than he’s felt in years. And the thought of a real dutiful marriage grows less attractive with every moment he spends in her intoxicating presence… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

Download or read book The Prince s Waitress Wife written by Sarah Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A playboy prince pays the price for bedding a beautiful waitress—a baby and a wedding—in this classic contemporary romance. When virgin waitress Holly is thrown into the playboy prince’s arms, he lives up to his wicked reputation by bedding her—then casting her aside! Holly is pregnant! Casper is furious; Holly’s just a scheming gold digger, but royal protocol demands he make her his bride! Innocent Holly has the wedding of her dreams—and Casper knows her first duty as his convenient wife will be on their wedding night. . . . Originally published in 2008.

Download or read book Desert Passions written by Hsu-Ming Teo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.

Download or read book Snowbound in His Billion Dollar Bed written by Kali Anthony and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no escaping their chemistry when the Italian count and the violinist are stranded in this intense forced proximity romance from Kali Anthony! Outside a snowstorm is raging Inside the temperature is rising… Ousted from Italian high society, Count Stefano Moretti has locked himself behind his castle walls. He’s determined to right the wrongs that ruined his family’s name. The arrival of beautiful Lucy Jamieson at his door is a distraction he can’t afford! Running from heartbreak, violinist Lucy is attempting to return a precious heirloom. Caught in a bitter snowstorm, she’s forced to seek shelter in Stefano’s castle, where she finds herself longing to unravel the truth behind his disgraced reputation…and to discover the searing heat promised in his bed! From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds.

Download or read book Representing Difference in the Medieval and Modern Orientalist Romance written by Amy Burge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the first full-length cross-period comparison of medieval and modern literature, offers cutting edge research into the textual and cultural legacy of the Middle Ages: a significant and growing area of scholarship. At the juncture of literary, cultural and gender studies, and capitalizing on a renewed interest in popular western representations of the Islamic east, this book proffers innovative case studies on representations of cross-religious and cross-cultural romantic relationships in a selection of late medieval and twenty-first century Orientalist popular romances. Comparing the tropes, characterization and settings of these literary phenomena, and focusing on gender, religion, and ethnicity, the study exposes the historical roots of current romance representations of the east, advancing research in Orientalism, (neo)medievalism and medieval cultural studies. Fundamentally, Representing Difference invites a closer look at medieval and modern popular attitudes towards the east, as represented in romance, and the kinds of solutions proposed for its apparent problems.

Download or read book The Sheikh And The Virgin written by Kim Lawrence and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-07-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I can’t believe I fell for him at first sight! One day, Beatrice is saved from a mugging by a handsome man who exudes a refined aura that makes her heart pound. She is surprised to learn that the man is Tariq, the crown prince of the kingdom of Zaharat! Beatrice stumbles over her thank-you as her heart races, but her words are met with a cold response. “I need you to break up with my younger brother Hareed immediately,” he says while offering her a fat check. He’s mistaken Beatrice for the awful woman who’s tricking his younger brother!

Download or read book A Virgin for the Desert King written by Maisey Yates and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sheikh is entirely irresistible to the innocent in this sexy desert romance from New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates. She may be able to tame him …but does she want to? Taken as a political prisoner as a teen, Sheikh Riyaz al Hadid grew into a man in a dungeon. His first glimpse of Brianna Whitman is a visceral reminder of all he’s missed out on… It’s Brianna’s job to reacclimate Riyaz to palace life and prepare him for his long-arranged royal wedding. She knows she should smooth down his wild edges—just like she knows that he’s already betrothed. But the forbidden attraction that flames between them makes her want to cast her innocence to the desert winds… From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all The Royal Desert Legacy books: Book 1: Forbidden to the Desert Prince Book 2: A Virgin for the Desert King

Download or read book An Imperialist Love Story written by Amira Jarmakani and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A curious figure stalks the pages of a distinct subset of mass-market romance novels, aptly called “desert romances.” Animalistic yet sensitive, dark and attractive, the desert prince or sheikh emanates manliness and raw, sexual power. In the years since September 11, 2001, the sheikh character has steadily risen in popularity in romance novels, even while depictions of Arab masculinity as backward and violent in nature have dominated the cultural landscape. An Imperialist Love Story contributes to the broader conversation about the legacy of orientalist representations of Arabs in Western popular culture. Combining close readings of novels, discursive analysis of blogs and forums, and interviews with authors, Jarmakani explores popular investments in the war on terror by examining the collisions between fantasy and reality in desert romances. Focusing on issues of security, freedom, and liberal multiculturalism, she foregrounds the role that desire plays in contemporary formations of U.S. imperialism. Drawing on transnational feminist theory and cultural studies, An Imperialist Love Story offers a radical reinterpretation of the war on terror, demonstrating romance to be a powerful framework for understanding how it works, and how it perseveres.

Download or read book Claiming His Virgin Princess written by Annie West and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When their two worlds collide, the result is their passion! USA TODAY bestselling author Annie West enchants with this royal romance. A sheltered princess… And the man who could set her free! Hounded by the paparazzi and pitied by the public after two failed engagements, Princess Ilsa of Altbourg escapes to Monaco. She’ll finally let her hair down in private. Perhaps self-made Australian billionaire Noah Carson can help her do that… Women like Ilsa have always scorned Noah’s humble roots. So when an inferno sparks between them, he’s cautious, even while whisking Ilsa away on his lavish yacht! It’s clear opposites do attract…but if Noah claims her, can he be sure they can bridge the gap between their different worlds? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the Royal Scandals books: Book 1: Pregnant with His Majesty's Heir Book 2: Claiming His Virgin Princess

Download or read book Desert Princes and Defiant Virgins written by Sarah Morgan and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Royal Lives glamorous, luxurious, bound by duty yet still captive to desire! Virgin Princess Karim, Sultan of Zangrar, sought a gentle, obedient bride. What he got was a defiant, feisty wife with fire in her eyes! Their marriage contract could not be broken. And she was a rebel princess who wouldn't be tamed. . . Secretary Lover Betrayed by her fiancé, Kiley turned to the most eligible man she knew: her boss Prince Rafiq of Lucia-Serrat! Although the dashingly handsome prince had enticed dozens of women, she had just one thing in mind when she proposed becoming his mistress: revenge Innocent Bride As heir to the throne, Prince Tair al Sharif's first priority is his country, and bespectacled teacher Molly James is not a woman he d plan to bed. But Molly is his innocent captive and Tair must pay the price for keeping her in the desert overnight!

Download or read book The Spanish Billionaire s Pregnant Wife written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leandro Carrera Marquez, Duque de Sandoval, was as aristocratic, proud and arrogant as his name…and darkly handsome in an impossible, breathtaking way. What would this billionaire Spanish banker want with a struggling, impoverished waitress like Molly? But Leandro did want Molly—and he took her, accidentally making her pregnant with his child. In Leandro's traditional world, there was only one option—marry the mother of his heir. After all, none of his noble ancestors had actually married for love….