Download or read book The Sheikh s Rebellious Mistress written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A royal sheikh is out for revenge against the woman who stole his heart—and his fortune—in the USA Today–bestselling author’s sexy international romance. Sheikh Salim al Taj, crown prince of Senahdar, never mixes business and pleasure—until a night of unbridled passion with employee Grace Hunter makes him rethink all the rules he lives by. Afraid that his desire for her could compromise his judgment, he conjures every ounce of self-control to keep her at arm’s length. But when Grace suddenly disappears—along with ten million dollars of Salim’s money—the sheikh’s desire turns to a lust for revenge. He resolves to bring his runaway rebellious mistress to heel—slowly, pleasurably and mercilessly. . . .

Download or read book The Sheikh s Rebellious Mistress Mills Boon Modern The Sheikh Tycoons Book 0 written by Sandra Marton and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sheikh takes his revenge! Sheikh Salim al Taj never mixes business with pleasure. But one night with his employee Grace Hudson and his rule is broken – now he wants her exclusively! When Salim ends their passionate affair, he can’t believe it when Grace walks out on her job, apparently taking company secrets with her.

Download or read book The Sheik s Rebellious Mistress written by Elizabeth Lennox and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electra's childhood was filled with extremes - her father dying in an assassination attempt, then being surrounded by body guards determined to protect her, sometimes from herself, made Electra want to rebel against any kind of authority. When she runs into Dharr, all she knows is that he's the most fascinating man she's ever met in her life, and her body guards aren't stopping her from meeting him - a first!Although she can't figure out why her luck has changed with this man, she's not questioning her good fortune as she experiences freedom, and bliss, for the first time in her life. Dharr can't believe that the one woman that finally gets to him, he can't have. She refuses to bow down to his authority, gives him the most pleasure and the most frustration any woman has ever dared to deliver. She doesn't even know who he is. How is he to bend this daring, dynamic and devastatingly lovely woman to his will when she refuses to acknowledge his authority?

Download or read book THE SHEIKH S REBELLIOUS MISTRESS written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salim and Grace were once lovers. But when she was made to face the reality of her unworthiness of the crown prince of a desert kingdom, Grace left Salim without a word. Angry at her abrupt departure, Salim tracks her down. They survive a plane crash and find themselves washed up on a deserted island. The shock causes Grace to lose her memory. And yet, whenever Salim touches her, memories awaken within her. Under these extreme circumstances, Grace is forced to realize that she can't live without him.

Download or read book Mistress of the Sheikh written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this classic romance by bestselling author Sandra Marton, now available for the first time in e-book! Sheikh Nicholas al Rashid: hailed in his homeland as the Lion of the Desert… Amanda Benning: beautiful stepdaughter of Jonas Baron and interior designer, commissioned to refurbish Nick’s already luxurious Manhattan apartment… Nick is intent on making Amanda his mistress. Does he really want her for herself, or to have his revenge? Book 5 in The Barons miniseries Originally published in 2000

Download or read book The Sheikh s Last Mistress written by Rachael Thomas and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Promoted to Princess! Destiny Richards knows she is playing with fire when she accepts charismatic Sheikh Zafir Al Asmari's job offer, but it seems like a fair price to pay to start her life over again. Until the temperature reaches the boiling point and Destiny finds herself spending one out-of-this-world night with the sheikh! When powerful Zafir seduces English rose Destiny, he never anticipates she'll hold the title of his Last Mistress. But their scorching affair has shocking repercussions. Now, before their nine months are up, Zafir must convince Destiny to make their arrangement more permanent!

Download or read book The Sheikh Tycoons Bundle written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can love triumph when it's held hostage by culture clash? Meet three irresistible desert princes who have it all--looks, charm, wealth and sexiness to spare. When three captivating, desirable Western beauties enter their lives--spirited, independent, defiant women so utterly unlike those from their homeland--how can they fail to fall for them, and fall hard? But a sheikh is accustomed to getting everything he wants on his own terms. And love can't be won that way--it must be earned, not commanded. Prepare to be swept away by the blazing heat and breathtaking passion of desert romance at its finest in three riveting stories by top selling Harlequin Presents author Sandra Marton. Bundle includes: The Sheikh's Defiant Bride, The Sheikh's Wayward Wife and The Sheikh's Rebellious Mistress.

Download or read book Civilized Violence written by David Hansen-Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on what attracts audiences to representations of violence in the first place. Drawing on historical-sociology, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, masculinity studies and textual analysis, David Hansen-Miller explains how the exercise of violence has been concealed and denied by modern society at the same time that it retains considerable power over how we live our lives. He demonstrates how discourses of sexuality and gender, even romantic love, are freighted with the micropolitics of violence. Confronted with such contradictions, audiences are drawn to the cinema where they can see violence graphically restored to everyday life. Popular cinema holds the power to narrate and interpret social forces that have become too opaque, diffuse and dynamic to otherwise comprehend. Through detailed engagement with specific narratives from the last century of popular film - The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Sheik, Once Upon a Time in the West, Deliverance - and the pervasive violence of contemporary cinema, Hansen-Miller investigates the manner in which representations can transform our understanding of how violence works.

Download or read book The Greek Tycoon s Disobedient Bride written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fate unites a Greek billionaire and an English gardener—whether they like it or not—in this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today bestseller. It amazed Ophelia that Lysander Metaxis—a Greek billionaire notorious for his harem of adoring women—wanted to marry her, a humble gardener with a crumbling old manor house and debts up to her ears. But soon she realized Lysander didn’t want her—he wanted her property and her body. But marry him she would, because she had no choice if she wanted to keep what she cherished most. And disobedient she would be, because her new husband had no intention of loving her. . . . 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 His Mistress His Terms written by Trish Wylie and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rule #1—Never mix business with pleasure… Rich, gorgeous playboy Alex Fitzgerald initially hires Merrow O'Connell for her interior-design skills. But soon Alex is determined to break his number-one rule and have the Irish beauty in his bed. She's perfect mistress material! Merrow can't argue with the boss. But she's learned not to let anyone get close, and has vowed to stay unattached. So what will she do when the billionaire playboy suddenly wants her to be more than just his mistress?

Download or read book For The Sheikh s Pleasure written by Sandra Marton and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheikh's Defiant Bride The time had come for Tariq, Crown Prince of Dubaac, to find a wife and produce an heir. Though the darkly handsome, worldly–wise Sheikh had wined, dined and made love to some of the most beautiful and sophisticated women in the world, duty demanded that now he choose a biddable wife who would submit to him – day and night. Then Madison Whitney became pregnant with Tariq's child. But high–flying, outspoken Manhattan career–girl Madison certainly wasn't biddable or submissive! Tariq knew he must use every means at his disposal to claim his defiant bride and their baby... The Sheikh's Wayward Wife Sheikh Khalil al Hasim is more than happy to escort feisty Layla Addison back to his desert kingdom and hand her over to her betrothed. But he's almost as horrified as she is by the lecherous man she's being forced to marry! With steely determination, Khalil demands she become his bride instead! Layla's powerless to resist his wicked good looks, but he's arrogant and overbearing. Has this rebellious bride just jumped from the frying pan into the fire? The Sheikh's Rebellious Mistress For Sheikh Salim al Taj, it's strictly business. But one night with his employee Grace Hunter and his focus is changed – now he wants her exclusively! When Salim ends their passionate affair, he can't believe it when Grace walks out on her job, apparently taking company secrets with her. He resolves to bring his runaway rebellious mistress to heel – slowly, pleasurably and mercilessly...

Download or read book Ruling Sheikh Unruly Mistress written by Susan Stephens and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-07-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women around the world sighed when Sheikh Razi al Maktabi declared his playboy days were over and duty would be his new mistress. But he found time for one final fling before he took his desert throne, and curvy chef Lucy Tennant certainly whetted His Majesty's appetite. A wiz in the kitchen, Lucy was a beginner in the bedroom, and Razi couldn't resist one last challenge. But one night has led to the scandal of the century Lucy has unexpectedly arrived at the desert palace with her luggage...proud and pregnant

Download or read book Civilized Violence written by Dr David Hansen-Miller and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-01-28 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civilized Violence provides a social and historical explanation for the popular appeal of cinema violence. There is a significant amount of research on the effects of media violence, but less work on what attracts audiences to representations of violence in the first place. Drawing on historical-sociology, cultural studies, feminist and queer theory, masculinity studies and textual analysis, David Hansen-Miller explains how the exercise of violence has been concealed and denied by modern society at the same time that it retains considerable power over how we live our lives. He demonstrates how discourses of sexuality and gender, even romantic love, are freighted with the micropolitics of violence. Confronted with such contradictions, audiences are drawn to the cinema where they can see violence graphically restored to everyday life. Popular cinema holds the power to narrate and interpret social forces that have become too opaque, diffuse and dynamic to otherwise comprehend. Through detailed engagement with specific narratives from the last century of popular film – The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Sheik, Once Upon a Time in the West, Deliverance – and the pervasive violence of contemporary cinema, Hansen-Miller investigates the manner in which representations can transform our understanding of how violence works.

Download or read book Ruthless Tycoon Innocent Wife written by Helen Brooks and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-11-22 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman must protect her inheritance—and her heart—from a billionaire intent on making her his partner in business and pleasure. Marianne Carr will do anything to save her home, and ruthless businessman Rafe Steed knows it! He has a score to settle with the Carr family, and after one meeting with this delicate beauty he decides he will have the house . . . and the girl! Against her better judgment, Marianne is attracted to Rafe’s powerful sensuality. But she is saving herself for her wedding night, and Rafe is definitely not the marrying kind! Yet what this tycoon wants, he usually gets. . . .

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 279 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 S WAYWARD WIFE written by Sandra Marton and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2016-04-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layla has been cursed with terrible luck ever since she decided to fly to the desert nation of Al Ankhara in search of the father she never knew. After their reunion, her father tricks her, locks her up in his estate and gives her away, as if she’s an object, to be married to an unknown enemy! But it’s not like Layla to give up easily. She manages to escape her guard and make a run for it, until she’s spotted by none other than the handsome and haughty Sheikh Halil.