The Sheikh's Bartered Bride
After a whirlwind courtship, Sheikh Hakim bin Omar al Kadar proposes marriage. Shy, innocent Catherine Benning has already fallen head-over-heels in love and she accepts....After their wedding day--and night--when the sheikh claims his virgin wife, Catherine and Hakim travel to his desert...
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After a whirlwind courtship, Sheikh Hakim bin Omar al Kadar proposes marriage. Shy, innocent Catherine Benning has already fallen head-over-heels in love and she accepts....After their wedding day--and night--when the sheikh claims his virgin wife, Catherine and Hakim travel to his desert kingdom. There Catherine discovers that this is no love match for Hakim--he's bought her!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780373124473 (0373124473)
Publish date: February 2005
Publisher: Harlequin
Pages no: 186
Edition language: English
Series: Royal Brides (#1)
I had trouble categorizing this, when i started reading this could have been a historical romance with how the couple talked and expressed themselves and then all of a sudden they´re in a limousine. *hmm* So the first 50 pages had me confused and more focused on what time period this was than their ...
24yo heroine is awestruck that handsome & stately Middle-Eastern Hero would be interested in a shy & virginal librarian like her. Their 3-week-long courtship ends in an unexpected proposal of marriage. She can only surmise that he must love her too. Heroine learns days after their wedding that thei...
I might have enjoyed this more if I hadn’t read Monroe's The Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement many times first. This earlier book has a very similar plot and the heroine Catherine’s thoughts and dialog are too familiar. I also found Catherine extremely wet, and she slobbers over Hakim to an embarrass...
Still in the mood for this kind of books :DThis one is ok... The heroine is a naive, little [insert here derogatory term/noun] and the hero thinks he is such a smart, sexy, obsessed with "the good of the people first, good of the family 2nd and, somewhere in there, think for myself" dude... All in a...
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