sheikh

I just loved this sheikh book.  I don't like "cruel" sheikhs, but Rafiq is the epitome of honour.  And he loves for keeps.  Annie West is a great new discovery for me.

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Sheikh Amir bin Faruq al Zorha lives in New York, but the desert is where his heart lies. Now it's time for him to marry….

Grace Brown, Amir's plain but indispensable assistant, isn't exactly queen material. No matter how tempted Amir is to take her innocence, she's off-limits. Until he returns to his homeland, where the barbarian prince replaces the businessman—and resolves that Grace will be his!

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Favourite Scene: (the heroine's utter ignorance/innocence is funny, so is her slamming shut the Joys of Sex)

When her breathing had become more erratic, she’d wondered if she was developing asthma. When her womb clenched and that place between her thighs that had never been touched by anyone but a doctor’s clinical hand pulsed with some nameless need, she’d thought she was having muscle spasms.

She’d been mortified when she took her symptoms to the doctor only to be told by the kindly, but elderly GP that she was in lust.

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Sheikh Khalifa is bored by the potential wives paraded in front of him. So when he catches sweet, innocent Beth Torrance trespassing on his private beach, he is more than ready to be distracted….

Beth comes to the island a naïve virgin, but leaves an awakened woman—and unknowingly pregnant with the sheikh's baby! When the desert king vows to claim his child—and take its mother as his permanent mistress—Beth is powerless to refuse a royal decree!

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Favourite Scene: (when she first met him, he was naked)

She’d just have to make sure she didn’t blurt out something completely inappropriate, Beth thought, starting to panic. She definitely mustn’t say, ‘I hardly recognised you in your clothes.’  

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Life has taught Prince Vereham al a'Karim bin Hakar to control his emotions. Duty to his kingdom drives the enigmatic sheikh.
But one unexpected, intensely sexy encounter with inexperienced Samantha McLellan shakes Vere's steely control. And when he discovers that Sam could be betraying his country, he decides to blackmail her—into being his mistress!

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Favourite Scene: (she just told him it wasn't likely she was pregnant)

Vere had no idea why Sam’s assertion that she had not conceived his child should make him feel that dark bitterness and pain. All he did know was that it also made him feel angry and alone. Shamefully, it also made him feel that he wanted to take her back in his arms and make love to her until she was crying out to him to possess her. And this time when he did so he wanted to ensure that…That what? That he impregnated her with his seed? That her body, her womb, would ripen with it and with his child? The fierce clutch of savage joy at his heart was giving him a message that was totally at odds with the logical rejection inside his head.  

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Zara Kingston has gone to the desert city of Zaddara to confront the man she blames for her troubled past. But when, during a sandstorm, she's protected by a dark stranger, she finds that the desert holds hidden treasures.

Zara soon realizes that the man she yearns for is Sheikh Shahin--the thief of her happiness! Shahin knows that Zara is a virgin--forbidden, no matter how strong his desire. But it's forbidden fruit that tastes the sweetest....

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Favourite Scene: (I love how she claims him, and he accepts it happily and with calm certainty) 

"You're mine," she told him fiercely.  And then she moved her hips with strong, deliberate thrusts, daring him to argue....   

"You're mine, Shahin... Mine," she gasped, clinging to his arms as he pleasured her.           

He didn't doubt it.  She was a lioness, a queen, and the only mother he could ever want for his children.  

Yummy sheikh, strong heroine

HER SHEIKH BOSS by Carol Grace, Harl Romance, May 08.

Claudia Bradford has a secret: she's head-over-heels in love with the most unsuitable man possible -- her boss, gorgeous sheikh Samir Al-Hamri.  And he's taking her on a business trip to his desert home.

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An English rose ready for plucking?

When billionaire playboy Xavier de Maistre discovers he's in line to rule the kingdom of Kharastan, he's not eager to claim his birthright. Until he meets Laura Cottingham, the English lawyer who confirms the news. Laura is as fresh and pure as a newly bloomed rose! Xavier decides he will embrace his heritage—and indulge his intense need to possess Laura.

But is Laura ready and willing to be tamed and taken by this desert prince?
 

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The heroine is a lawyer who's job is to bring the hero, the illegitimate son of a sheikh, home to meet his dying father. 

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Sheikh Tair lives by the rules of the desert. When he finds Tally has broken a sacred law, endangering the safety of his tribe, Tair has to act.

Tally is kept like a harem girl, but every time she tries to escape, the hostile desert drives her back. And with each new act of her disobedience, Tair's resolve hardens. As ruler, he must tame her. As a man he wants her -- willing or not!   Warning: Feminists will object to the complete disregard of the heroine's right of choice here.  Of course the hero redeems himself in a way: by not caring about her past lover(s) and by giving her back her freedom at the end.   

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Tair refilled his cup of tea from the small glazed pot. “I shall find you a husband.”
 
“What?”
 
He nodded matter of factly before sipping his tea. “You need a husband. It is the way it should be. I shall find you one. You will be glad.” 

Desert Prince, Expectant Mother by Olivia Gates, Mills and Boon Medical, April 2008

Larissa McPherson volunteered with GAO as a surgeon in Bibayla. This way she could learn about her baby's father's family. But one of the first people she meets is Dr. Faress Aal Rasheed. They are very much drawn to each other. But because he is the brother of her baby's father she won't give in to her attraction. Faress can't figure out why Larissa keeps resisting his charms when he knows her desire for him is just as strong. Because Faress is so attracted to her, getting to know the family of her the baby's father just got easier. Faress wants Larissa to come stay at the palace. Larissa believes Faress is just a playboy and that his pursuit of her is just his conquering habit. With his sister and brother dead, will he give in to the king and cast Larissa aside to please his father and agree to an arranged marriage? And what of the child Larissa carries? A child that is the heir to the throne.