Download or read book The Sultan s Harem Bride written by Annie West and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sultan Asim of Jazeer has hundreds of women at his beck and call. So why does he want the only one who threatens to reveal his family's shameful secrets? Journalist Jacqui Fletcher jumped at the chance to write a history of the harem - not to become a sultan's plaything! But it's hard to remember her assignment when the sultan's sensuous caresses spark a fire she's never experienced before... Asim is looking for a pliable princess for a marriage of duty. Brave, beautiful Jacqui couldn't be more wrong for him. So why does holding her feel so right?

Download or read book The Sultan s Harem Bride Mills Boon Modern Desert Vows Book 1 written by Annie West and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WANTED: Desert princess to join harem Sultan Asim of Jazeer has hundreds of women at his beck and call. So why does he want the only one who threatens to reveal his family’s shameful secrets?

Download or read book THE SULTAN S HAREM BRIDE written by Annie West and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-09-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacqui, a magazine writer, met Asim, a sultan, in his country when she visited Jazeer. They met in the harem, which had gone unused for a long time. The extremely confident Asim looked at Jacqui with great interest?their personalities were complete opposites and he was fascinated by her. It didn't take long for Jacqui to be entirely captivated by Asim's charm, either. She was filled with happiness when Asim made love to her...until she learned that the king had been meeting with a number of potential princesses...

Download or read book Kings of the Desert the Sultan s Harem Bride the Desert King s Secret Heir the Desert King s Captive Bride written by Annie West and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sultan's Harem Bride Sultan Asim of Jazeer has hundreds of women at his beck and call. So why does he want the only one who threatens to reveal his family's shameful secrets? Journalist Jacqui Fletcher jumped at the chance to write a history of the harem - not to become a sultan's plaything! But it's hard to remember her assignment when the sultan's sensuous caresses spark a fire she's never experienced before. Asim is looking for a pliable princess for a marriage of duty. Brave, beautiful Jacqui couldn't be more wrong for him. So why does holding her feel so right? The Desert King's Secret Heir Surrounded by society's glitterati, Arden Wills finds herself staring up into the eyes of her first and only love. But Sheikh Idris Baddour has a surprise title and heavy responsibilities...so she clings to her precious secret even tighter. Time has done nothing to dampen the intense ardour between them. And when their kiss is blasted across the world's front pages Arden's truth comes to light - the sheikh has a secret son! To avoid further scandal, Idris must legitimise his heir and make English Rose Arden his dutiful desert queen! The Desert King's Captive Bride Princess Ghizlan of Jeirut has returned home to find that warrior Sheikh Huseyn al Rasheed has seized her late father's kingdom. With her sister held hostage, Ghizlan has no choice. Her barbarian captor is determined to tame her, rule her - and make her his own! Forcing Ghizlan's hand in marriage will not be enough to conquer her body and soul: Huseyn's iron-will is challenged at every step by her magnificent beauty and fierce pride. It won't be long before they both fall prey to the firestorm between them...

Download or read book Playing by the Greek s Rules written by Sarah Morgan and published by Mills & Boon. This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLAYING BY THE GREEK'S RULES Time to throw away the rule book? Archaeologist Lily Rose craves a fairytale love, but is always left heartbroken. Now Lily's trying something different - a fling with her boss, Greek playboy Nik Zervakis! With anti-love and anti-family rules, who better to teach Lily how to separate sizzling sex from deep emotions? But Nik's heart has its own shadows... Starting as a sensual game, can they both stick to Nik's rules... ? THE SULTAN'S HAREM BRIDE WANTED: Desert princess to join harem Journalist Jacqui Fletcher jumped at the chance to write about the harem - not to become a sultan's plaything! But it's hard to remember her assignment when Asim's sensuous caresses spark a fire she's never experienced before... Asim is looking for a pliable princess for a marriage of duty and brave, beautiful Jacqui couldn't be more wrong. So why does holding her feel so right?

Download or read book The Sultan s Harem written by Colin Falconer and published by Crown. This book was released on 2004 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the critically acclaimedWhen We Were Godscomes a dramatic, unforgettable novel of cruelty and passion, set in the great Harem of the Ottoman Empire. In Constantinople there is only one ruler: Sultan Süleyman the Magnificent, Lord of Lords of this World, Possessor of Men’s Necks, Allah’s Deputy, absolute ruler of the mighty Ottoman Empire. And at the heart of his palace is the Sultan’s vast Harem, the domain of hundreds of scented, pampered women—some wives, some concubines, some merely slaves. Among them is Gülbehar, the Sultan’s submissive favorite and mother of his heir; Julia, the daughter of an Italian lord, kidnapped when she attempted to flee Venice with her lover; and Hürrem, a Tartar girl from the Russian steppes, sold into slavery. All three women are beautiful, but Hürrem is the most dangerous—ruthless in her desire to rule the Harem and, ultimately, Süleyman himself. Endlessly manipulative and clever, she carefully arranges the downfall of her rivals and endears herself to the Sultan, who places her at the center of the Empire’s power. It is his obsession with Hürrem—not his enemies—that in the end costs Süleyman his allies, his sons, and finally his dynasty. Bestselling author Colin Falconer offers an irresistible glimpse into a world of intrigue, sensuality, and violence, where an empire can be controlled not by the might of its king but by the women hidden behind the Harem walls.

Download or read book The Harem Bride written by Blair Bancroft and published by ROC Hardcover. This book was released on 2004 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been ten years since Jason Lisbourne rescued Penelope Blayne from a sultan's harem. Jason has spent those years trying to erase his romantic failure from his memory. Now he has a second chance to save her, unless pride--and a secret--rip them apart forever. Original.

Download or read book THE SHEIKH S PRINCESS BRIDE written by Annie West and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will Samira be able to create the family she always dreamed of? Samira, the princess of Jazir, was just reunited with her first love, Tarik, at a charity party. He’s now the recently divorced sultan of Al-Sarath. Tarik introduces Samira to his twins and she is immediately smitten. This might be her first and last chance to be a mother, since she’s been told she can never get pregnant again. So Samira dared to suggest a marriage of convenience, for the sake of the children…and Tarik’s expression changed completely!

Download or read book Damaso Claims His Heir written by Annie West and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Brazilian tycoon discovers his fling with a princess has made him a father in this opposites-attract romance by a USA Today–bestselling author. Damaso Pires should have known better than to get involved with Marisa—the scandalous princess of Bengaria! Yet soon he sees her true beauty and flawless virtue, which touches a place in him he thought ruthlessly destroyed by his childhood on the streets of Brazil. But their brief affair becomes permanent when Marisa reveals she’s pregnant. Damaso knows the sting of illegitimacy and, having fought tooth and nail to claw his way up to the dizzying heights of international success and financial infamy, he won’t let his child slip from his grasp. There’s only one way to claim his heir, and that’s marriage!

Download or read book The Concubine the Princess and the Teacher written by Douglas Scott Brookes and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated memoirs, three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem in Istanbul between 1876 and 1924 offer a fascinating glimpse "behind the veil" into the lives of Muslim palace women of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The memoirists are Filizten, concubine to Sultan Murad V; Princess Ayse, daughter of Sultan Abdulhamid II; and Safiye, a schoolteacher who instructed the grandchildren and harem ladies of Sultan Mehmed V. Their recollections of the Ottoman harem reveal the rigid protocol and hierarchy that governed the lives of the imperial family and concubines, as well as the hundreds of slave women and black eunuchs in service to them. The memoirists show that, far from being a place of debauchery, the harem was a family home in which polite and refined behavior prevailed. Douglas Brookes explains the social structure of the nineteenth-century Ottoman palace harem in his introduction. These three memoirs, written across a half century and by women of differing social classes, offer a fuller and richer portrait of the Ottoman imperial harem than has ever before been available in English.

Download or read book Empress of the East written by Leslie Peirce and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "fascinating . . . lively" story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empire (New York Times). In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by slave traders from her Ruthenian homeland and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Istanbul. Suleyman became besotted with her and foreswore all other concubines. Then, in an unprecedented step, he freed her and married her. The bold and canny Roxelana soon became a shrewd diplomat and philanthropist, who helped Suleyman keep pace with a changing world in which women, from Isabella of Hungary to Catherine de Medici, increasingly held the reins of power. Until now Roxelana has been seen as a seductress who brought ruin to the empire, but in Empress of the East, Peirce reveals the true history of an elusive figure who transformed the Ottoman harem into an institution of imperial rule.

Download or read book Some Girls written by Jillian Lauren and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A jaw-dropping story of how a girl from the suburbs ends up in a prince's harem, and emerges from the secret Xanadu both richer and wiser At eighteen, Jillian Lauren was an NYU theater school dropout with a tip about an upcoming audition. The "casting director" told her that a rich businessman in Singapore would pay pretty American girls $20,000 if they stayed for two weeks to spice up his parties. Soon, Jillian was on a plane to Borneo, where she would spend the next eighteen months in the harem of Prince Jefri Bolkiah, youngest brother of the Sultan of Brunei, leaving behind her gritty East Village apartment for a palace with rugs laced with gold and trading her band of artist friends for a coterie of backstabbing beauties. More than just a sexy read set in an exotic land, Some Girls is also the story of how a rebellious teen found herself-and the courage to meet her birth mother and eventually adopt a baby boy.

Download or read book The Sultan and His Subjects written by Richard Davey and published by London : Chapman and Hall, Limited. This book was released on 1897 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sultan s Virgin Bride written by Sarah Morgan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’s the most eligible bachelor in the world. She’s the one who got away. “The sensual love scenes . . . will keep you turning the pages of this spicy book.” —RT Book Reviews Sultan Tariq bin Omar al-Sharma can have anything, and anyone, he wants. The one exception is heiress Farrah Tyndall, whom he lost after their passionate affair ended. Farrah was crushed when she discovered Tariq only wanted her in his bed. Five years on, Tariq’s business deal can only be secured by marrying Farrah. Now he must persuade her to love him once more. But as a prince of the desert, dare he mix business with pleasure?

Download or read book Defying Her Desert Duty written by Annie West and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chained by silk and jewels Across the bustling nightclub, bodyguard Zahir El Hashem watches his latest charge swaying temptingly on the dance floor, his pulse quickening. Returning the Princess to her bridegroom might not be such a simple operation after all… Soraya Karim has always known one day she must resume her royal obligations—just not so soon! Clinging to the last shreds of her freedom, Soraya insists they take the long way back to Bakhara—and their attraction reaches a dangerous fever pitch… Once they reach the gates of the palace such a liaison will be utterly forbidden. From then duty must reign… "Annie West never disappoints! So evocative and full of drama and tension throughout. A classic romance."—Abby, Author, Dublin

Download or read book Harem Years written by Huda Shaarawi and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A firsthand account of the private world of a harem in colonial Cairo—by a groundbreaking Egyptian feminist who helped liberate countless women. In this compelling memoir, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her marriage at age thirteen. Her subsequent separation from her husband gave her time for an extended formal education, as well as an unexpected taste of independence. Shaarawi’s feminist activism grew, along with her involvement in Egypt’s nationalist struggle, culminating in 1923 when she publicly removed her veil in a Cairo railroad station, a daring act of defiance. In this fascinating account of a true original feminist, readers are offered a glimpse into a world rarely seen by westerners, and insight into a woman who would not be kept as property or a second-class citizen.

Download or read book The Desert King s Secret Heir Mills Boon Modern Secret Heirs of Billionaires Book 5 written by Annie West and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The child she hid...