Proud Sheikh Karim Abdullah sees Julia as just another gold-digger. But he can’t fight his fierce need to safeguard her baby from the assassins on his trail. And as Julia reveals her true motives Karim is transformed from enigmatic warrior to red-hot lover!

Darin Kadir had to protect American Rylie Hunt at all costs. Seeking answers, she'd traveled halfway around the world to find him. Now she is a target of his family's arch nemesis and must trust Darin in order to survive. Caught up in a covert war between two families, Rylie wants only to find her father's killers and bring them to justice. She doesn't want to fall in love. But the desire burning in Darin's eyes is unlike anything she's ever known. Will she surrender her heart—or become a casualty of a war across the ages?

Casey’s a Special Forces operative working under cover. Not a naive girl swept off her feet by some desert prince. But by the way her body reacts to sensual sheikh Hakim’s seduction, it clearly didn’t get the message!

Honour demanded that he protect her, passion made him claim her. She planned to be all business, but nothing could have prepared Sara for the strength and sensuality of Sheikh Tariq Abdullah. When they met she couldn’t help but respond to the magnetism of this powerful man. Born to rule, Tariq was accustomed to being obeyed.

POWERFUL SHEIK PROTECTS GORGEOUS DOCTOR IN THE DESERT HEAT

The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.