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The Arabian Love-Child

by Michelle Reid

Published 2003288 pagesISBN 978-0-2631-7892-0

Half Arab prince, half French, Rafiq Al-Qadim wears his pride like a suit of armor...as Melanie had discovered when she fell in love with him 8 years ago. Then Rafiq chose to believe ugly lies about her, and blew her out of his life like a grain of desert sand in the wind...But Melanie will never stop wanting Rafiq--unbeknownst to him, she gave birth to his child. Now that Robbie is old enough to need his father, Melanie is determined Rafiq will accept his son...even if he can never forgive her... Want a book, about Melanie's BFF - Sophia Elliot Hot-Blooded Husbands - Michelle Reid Should be read in order 1) ♡Mistress Bride (Raschid Al Kadah & Evie Delahaye) 2) ♡Sheikh's Chosen Wife (Hassan Al-Qadim & Leona Frayne) ♡Spanish Husband (Luiz de Vazquez & Caroline Newbury) 3) ♡Ethan's Temptress Bride (Ethan Hayes & Eve Herakleides) 4) ♡Arabian Love-Child (Rafiq Al-Qadim & Melanie Leggett Portreath) 5) ♡Passionate Marriage (Leandros Petronades & Isobel Cunningham Petronades)

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Romance, Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Themes to notice

Romance · Fiction

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Steady pace

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Reading lengthA standard-length read288 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2003
Primary categoryRomanceAlso cataloged under Fiction
ISBN-13
978-0-2631-7892-0
Language
English
Edition record
OL10242063M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Romance, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What must each character learn before the relationship can become believable?
  2. How do work, family, friendship, or identity shape the central relationship?
  3. Does the emotional resolution feel earned by the choices that came before it?

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