Ward

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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....

Spoiler Warning: All my reviews contain spoilers to some degree  

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.  

She's 20 years old and an heiress, he's a friend of her father and is her guardian until she's 21.  He sends for her to leave London and join him on an island because her deceased father was worried a man would marry her for her money.  The heroine has had a crush on the hero since she was 14 and he treated her with coolness.  She now feels the need to needle him and torment him, so she lets him think she's the bad girl he thinks and that she's pregnant.  The hero is engaged and wanted out of the engagement of convenience before the heroine came onto the scene.  They torment each other and are attracted, but he fights it.  Eventually, he wants her as his, regardless of whether she's pregnant (which she isn't).  She is still under the impression he is engaged, and rejects him.