HER BOSS DEMANDED MARRIAGE! Pregnant Molly Larkin thought Sheik Kaliq bin Shalik would graciously accept her resignation, but instead he proposed a marriage of convenience. Seemed her powerful boss needed an American bride to stay in the country and, thanks to opening her heart to the wrong man, Molly needed a name for her unborn child. Still, Molly never expected that the man she'd secretly loved from afar would now look into her eyes as if they held the most precious secret. Nonetheless the fantasy would end in a few months. Unless Molly could turn their green-card arrangement into a true-blue marriage…?

He must protect his country! And she’s the only solution. When Sheik Kazan el Sizar tries to hire Josephine “Jo” Scalise, the brilliant computer genius, to protect his government from a malicious computer virus, he isn’t expecting the red-hot lust that surges through his veins or the startled vulnerability in her beautiful eyes. Yet Kazan’s world view is turned upside down with this gentle woman’s entrance to his life. Against all of her best intentions, Jo is swept away by this powerful man’s touch. He changes her life and her perceptions in so many ways! Escape to the warmth of this desert romance…and accidental pregnancy!

Trapped - and it was all her fault! Alea Al-Basiri is trapped, irrevocably and unmercifully, when she finds out that her one and only night of incredible passion is with her family's sworn enemy, Rashid Bin Faisar, King of Ibel. Getting away from him had been easy, the first time. But when his web closes around her, she finds that she is bound by law to marry the man who has waged war against her country for more than a decade. She's horrified that she's now facing a loveless political marriage - a scenario she's fought against her whole life. Rashid is astonished to find the young beauty not only intelligent and stubborn, but also his perfect mate. Curbing that stubbornness will be his challenge - a task he's more than willing to accept. Unfortunately, Alea's heart has already fallen for the strong, handsome and vastly intelligent man. She loves everything about him - his compassion and strength as well as his love of his country. How can she get him to accept her love, and love her as well?

When the British Labour party announced the withdrawal of British forces from the Persian Gulf in January 1968, the United States faced a potential power vacuum in the area. The incoming Nixon administration, preoccupied with the Soviet Union and China, and the war in Vietnam, had no intention of replacing the British in the Gulf.

Sheik Shakir Kadir, scarred by warfare and lost love, is ready for the ultimate confrontation. But his deadly mission to bring down his family's archenemy is compromised by the discovery that the princess who destroyed his heart is now a prisoner. Held captive in a war-ravaged country, Nikki Olivier has her own life-or-death task to complete: bring her kidnapped son home alive. Her only hope is Shakir, the man she's never stopped wanting. Royal obligation had forced her to hurt Shakir and keep the volatile secret that her missing child is also his. Once the truth is revealed, will they create their own family legacy—or will it be their destruction?

Luna couldn’t believe the chain of events that had led to her wedding day. All she’d wanted was to save her small village, to help the residents to get out from underneath their crippling debt. So she’d written to the man who owned the bank. And here she was, walking down the aisle toward a man she barely knew. A man who could make her body sing but who could crush her hopes and dreams with a few harsh words. Dassar needed a wife. The lovely Luna fit none of his criteria. She was too soft, too sweet and would be hurt by palace life. So why couldn’t he forget her? Why could she get under his skin so easily? And why couldn’t he simply walk away?

The goal of acceptable quality, cost, and time is a decisive challenge in every engineering development process. To be familiar with metrology requires choosing the best combination of techniques, standards, and tools to control a project from advanced simulations to final performance measurements and periodic inspections. This book contains a cluster of chapters from international academic authors who provide a meticulous way to discover the impacts of metrology in both theoretical and application fields. The approach is to discuss the key aspects of a selection of untraditional metrological topics, covering the analysis procedures and set of solutions obtained from experimental studies.