Hot Desert Nights

♡Mistress to a Sheikh - Lucy Monroe (Kahlil & Jade Madison) 1-128 Jade sacrifices nearly everything to succumb to the sensuous pleasures of wealthy sheikh Khalil...only to realize she's simply another notch in his well-worn bedpost. But Jade can be sneakier than forty thieves when it means getting what she wants! ♤Desert Rake - Louise Allen (Drew Fenton & Caroline Morvall) Pages 129-247 (not contemporary) Widow Caroline Morvall defies her disapproving family to visit Constantinople. Her plan is to explore the wilds of Turkey, fulfilling her elderly husband’s dream, not to find herself in the harem of English adventurer and explorer Drew Fenton. While taking a lover might have been an agreeable theory, finding herself in love with a man who rejects all commitment is heartbreak. Caroline launches herself into an expedition to wildest Anatolia to forget Drew, but a stolen Arab stallion brings them together again, offering one last chance of happiness. ♡Blackmailed by the Sheikh Kim Lawrence (Karim Al-Ahmad & Prudence/ Prue Smith) 248 -376 Karim, the heir apparent to the throne of Zafsid, a small but wealthy state, is convinced English teacher Prue Smith is responsible for his sister's disappearance. Despite his unexpected attraction to her, Karim will do whatever is necessary to protect his family—even if it means blackmailing Prue and abducting her back to Zafsid! (From Lucy Monroe's website.)

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.