BLURB:
A savage son of the Sahara who knows no law but his own…
When pride and passion vie for supremacy…
Blistering desert days are nothing compared to the sizzling Sahara
nights…
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EXCERPT:
My eyes tracked
upward to rest on his sun-bronzed and lightly bearded face. Harsh and angular
in the lamplight, it was at once the handsomest and cruelest face I had ever
seen. He regarded me fiercely with scornful eyes. Those eyes! I had seen them
before.
I gasped. It was
him! The man from the party who had eyed me with such insolence. Even now he
gazed at me as no other man had ever dared to—in a way that made me feel like a
slave exposed for sale in a public market.
"Who are you?" I asked hoarsely,
speaking in French without thinking.
He replied in
French as well. "I am the Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan."
The name
conveyed nothing. "Is it money that you want? Are you holding me for
ransom?"
He regarded me
for a long and silent moment with an expression of contempt. "I have no
need of your money."
"What
then?" I demanded, but deep down I already knew it was not a question of
ransom. The way he looked at me was far too revealing and made my stomach
churn. "Do you think that you can keep me here, you fool?" I lashed
out in growing panic. "Do you suppose I can vanish into the desert and
that no notice will be taken of my disappearance? That no inquiries will be
made?"
"There will
be no inquiries," he answered me calmly.
"There will
be inquiries." I choked out. "I am not such a nonentity that nothing
will be done when I am missed. The English authorities will make the French
Government find out who is responsible, and you will pay for what you have
done."
"Pay?"
His amused look sent a cold feeling of dread through me. "I have already
paid… in gold that matches your hair, my gazelle. Besides," he continued,
"the French Government has no jurisdiction over me. There is no authority
above my own."
My trepidation
was growing more terrible every passing moment. "Why have you brought me
here?"
"Why have I
brought you here?" He repeated with a slow and heated appraisal that made
me acutely, almost painfully, conscious of my sex. "Bon Dieu! Are you not
woman enough to know?"
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
Victoria Vane is
a multiple award-winning romance novelist, cowboy addict, and history junkie
whose collective works of fiction range from wildly comedic romps to
emotionally compelling erotic romance. Victoria also writes historical fiction
as Emery Lee and is the founder of Goodreads Romantic Historical Fiction Lovers
and the Romantic Historical Lovers book review blog. Look for Victoria's sexy
new contemporary cowboy series coming from Sourcebooks summer 2014.
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Bride" or "A Breach of Promise" to a randomly drawn
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