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The sheikh's last challenge…
Stepping off his private jet in his designer suit, Sheikh Asad returns to his kingdom ready to secure his legacy. For beneath the starched white shirt beats the heart of a desert warrior!
Iris Carpenter barely recognizes the man standing before her. He's more magnificent than he was six years ago and even more dangerous. Especially when the searing heat of his eyes burns hotter than the fierce desert sun.
Iris can resist all she likes, but Asad knows it's just a matter of time before the flame-haired temptress is back in his bed—where she belongs!
If you enjoyed this Harlequin Presents story by Lucy Monroe, don't miss her tempting new title, One Night Heir!
- Sales Rank: #520362 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-04-22
- Released on: 2013-04-22
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author
USA Today Bestseller Lucy Monroe finds inspiration for her stories everywhere as she is an avid people-watcher. She has published more than fifty books in several subgenres of romance and when she's not writing, Lucy likes to read. She's an unashamed book geek, but loves movies and the theatre too. She adores her family and truly enjoys hearing from her readers! Visit her website at: http://lucymonroe.com
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"You look like you're ready to face a firing squad."
Her field assistant's words stopped Iris at the top of the grand palace staircase.
Suppressing a grimace at what she could not doubt was his all too accurate assessment, she turned to face the college intern and forced a smile. "You look hungry."
"Seriously, this is just dinner right?"
"Of course." Just dinner.
Where they were supposed to meet their liaison while in Kadar; Asad, Sheikh Hakim's second cousin, or something, and sheikh himself to a local Bedouin tribe, the Sha'b Al'najid. Asad was a fairly common Arabic name, meaning lion. An appropriate name for a man destined to be sheikh. Right? There was no reason to think that the man was her Asad.
No reason other than this awful sinking feeling that had not gone away since Sheikh Hakim had mentioned the liaison's name earlier. Ever since agreeing to this Middle Eastern assignment, she'd had a feeling of foreboding that she'd done her best to ignore.
But it was getting harder with every passing moment.
"I'm not feeling reassured here," Russell said as he stepped onto the stairs, his tone only half joking. "Dinner isn't a euphemism for kidnap and sell to white slavers, is it?"
The ridiculous assertion shocked a laugh out of Iris. "You're an idiot."
Still, her legs refused to move.
"But a charming one. You've got to admit it. And who wouldn't want to kidnap this?" he asked with a wink, having stopped to wait for her.
With his shaggy mop of red hair and pale skin, he could have been her baby brother. If only. Her childhood would have been a lot less lonely with a sibling. Her parents hadn't been cruel, only supremely uninterested. Their lives were complete with each other. They worked together, they played together, they traveled together and none of it included her.
She'd never understood why they'd had a child at all and had long since decided her advent into the world had been one of those "accidents" of faulty birth control. Though nothing had ever been said.
She couldn't imagine what they would have done with a child like Russell; he didn't fade into the background with grace.
No, no matter how many surface resemblances they shared, he would have been an even bigger cuckoo in their family nest than she'd been.
Nevertheless, Iris and Russell really did look like they could have come from the same gene pool. Oh, he had freckles and she didn't, and his eyes were green rather than her blue. However, they both had curly red hair—like her mother—slightly squared chins—like her father—and skin as pale as the white sands of New Mexico. At five foot ten, Russell was average height for a man, just like she was for a woman at five-five.
They both tended to dress like the science geeks they were, though tonight she'd donned a vibrant blue sheath dress and a black pashmina. Instead of her usual pony-tail, she'd pulled her hair back in a loose knot and even gone so far as to put on mascara and lipstick, though she almost never wore makeup. She was dining with a sheikh and his family after all.
Two sheikhs, her worried brain reminded her.
Russell was in his own version of dress formal, khaki slacks and a button-down oxford instead of his usual T-shirt and cargo pants.
Still, neither of them were all-that-and-a-bag-of-chips.
She groaned at his humorous conceit. "Anyone with half a brain would know better than to go through the trouble of kidnapping you."
He laughed, not taking offense and not entirely masking a concerned expression she didn't want to see.
No matter what, she would be fine. She would. She was no longer a naive university sophomore, but a professional geologist with an eminent private survey firm.
"So, why the long face?" Russell asked, taking another step down as if coaxing her to do the same. "I know you tried to get out of doing this assignment."
She had, but then she'd realized how foolish she was being. She couldn't go through her career refusing lucrative assignments in the Middle East just because she'd once loved a man who came from this part of the world. Besides, her boss had made it clear that this time, she didn't have a choice.
"I'm fine. Just a little jet-lagged." Forcing her feet to move, she started down the stairs.
Russell fell into step beside her when she reached him. He put his arm out for her and she took it.
She wasn't dwelling on the possibility that Sheikh Asad was her Asad. Not at all.
After all, what were the chances it was the same man who had done such a good job decimating her heart six years ago that she hadn't gone on another date until after she graduated? That it was the one man that she had hoped to live the whole rest of her life without ever seeing again?
Small. Almost nonexistent.
Right? Right.
So, her Asad had been part of a Bedouin tribe and, as she'd found out at the end, slated to be sheikh one day.
It didn't have to be the same man. She was praying it wasn't the same man.
If it was her Asad—or rather the Asad: he'd never really been hers and she had to stop thinking of him that way—she didn't know what she would do. Working toward the coveted position of senior geologist with Coal, Carrington & Boughton Surveyors, Inc., she couldn't refuse this assignment based on personal reasons. Not when she had been back in the office and definitely not now that she was already in the country.
She wasn't about to commit career suicide. Asad had taken enough from her. Her faith in love. Her belief in the rosy, bright future she'd ached for and dreamed of. He didn't get her career, too.
"What did the diamond say to the copper vein?" Russell's youthful voice pulled her out of her less than happy thoughts as they made their slow way down the stairs.
She rolled her eyes. "That joke is as old as the bedrock in Hudson Bay. The answer is—nothing, minerals don't talc'''
It was a hoary old joke, but when he laughed, she found herself joining him.
"I'm glad to see you still have a sense of humor." The deep voice coming from the hall below didn't sound happy at all.
In fact, it sounded almost annoyed. But Iris didn't have the wherewithal to worry about that little inconsistency. Not when the rich tones that still had the power to send her heart on a drumroll and to spark little pops of awareness along her every nerve ending belonged to a man she had truly believed she would never see again.
She stopped her descent and stared. Asad looked back at her, his dark chocolate gaze so intense, she felt the breath leave her lungs in a gasp.
He'd changed. Oh, he was still gorgeous. His hair still a dark brown, almost black and with no hint of gray, but instead of cropped close to his head like it had been back in school he wore it shoulder length. The different style should have made him seem more casual, more approachable. It didn't.
Despite his European designer suit and their civilized surroundings, he looked like a desert warrior. Capable. Confident. Dangerous.
His brown eyes stayed fixed firmly on her. Serious and probing. The humor that used to lurk there nowhere in evidence.
He had close-cropped facial hair that only added to his appeal, as if he needed any help in that department. He'd filled out since university days, too, his body more muscled, his presence every bit that of a man of definite power. At six feet three inches, he had always been a presence hard to ignore, but now? He was a true Middle Eastern sheikh.
Wishing, not for the first time, that she could ignore this man, she forced herself to incline her head in greeting. "Sheikh Asad."
"This is our liaison?" Russell croaked, reminding her that he was still there.
It didn't help. The young intern was no competition for her attention to Asad and the feelings roiling up from the depths where she'd buried them when he left her.
Putting his arm out to Iris, Asad showed no sign of noticing Russell at all. "I will escort you to the others."
Her frozen limbs unstuck and Iris managed to descend the remaining stairs. Giving in to her urge to ignore at least his suggestion, she stepped around his extended arm and headed to where she'd met earlier with Sheikh Hakim, his wife and their adorable children. If she was lucky, the dining room would be in the same part of the palace.
"Do you know where you are going?" Russell asked from behind her, sounding confused.
Asad made a sound that almost sounded like amusement. "I do not believe Iris has ever let a lack of certainty stop her from going forward."
She spun around and faced him, long-banked fury unexpectedly spiking and with it not a little pain. "Even the best scientist can misinterpret the evidence." Taking a deep breath, she regained the slip in her composure and asked with frigid politeness, "Perhaps you would like to the lead the way?"
Once again, he offered his arm. Again she pushed the bounds of polite behavior and ignored it, simply waiting in silence for him to get on with showing them where they were going.
"Just as stubborn as you ever were."
And she wanted to smack him, which shocked her to her core. She was not a violent person. Ever. Even in the past, when he'd hurt her almost beyond bearing, she'd never had a violent thought toward him. Just pain.
"That's our Iris, as immovable as a monolith."
Asad didn't ignore Russell this time. He gave the younger man a look meant to quell.
Seemingly oblivious, the college intern grinned and put his hand out to shake. "Russell Green, intrepid geological assistant, one day to be a full-fledged senior geologist with my own lab."
Asad shook the younger man's hand and inclined his head slightly. "Sheikh Asad b...
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Heart Of A Desert Warrior Soars
By Judy
Lucy Monroe pens another sweeping romance in Heart Of A Desert Warrior.
Iris Carpenter threw herself into her work as a geologist after her romance with Asad Hanif ended so abruptly several years ago. When her work brings her to the Middle East and their contact is Sheikh Asad, surely it can't be the same man who broke her heart. Iris is floored by the magnetic man who stands before her and her assistant. This Asad is more dangerous to her heart then the man from six years ago.
Sheikh Asad never forgot the young woman he left behind in the states. He knew he had to fulfill his duties to the people of Bedouin by marrying a neighboring princess. Now he is a widow with a young daughter in his care. Asad never forgot the woman who captivated him and he pulls every string he has to get Iris and her team on the project for his people.
Iris has built some high walls around her heart and is convinced that nothing the Sheikh will do can tear those walls down. But Asad has grown into a man who knows what he wants and he wants Iris in his life and his bed.
Can these two strong willed people be able to bend to find a love that is worth keeping?
Heart Of A Desert Warrior is an absolute gem. The characters will stir deep emotions in your heart and you will find yourself hoping that they find their happy ever after. Lucy Monroe's stories are a treat for any romance reader and are first on my list of books I want to read. This book will become one you will want to read over and over.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent
By JSG
Reading thru my review, please be aware there may be some minor spoilers in it...
I pre-ordered this book (not surprising, it's a Lucy Monroe) and am glad I did. I thought the plot was very good and the way the characters acted and reacted was believable. I understood the hero's early motivation for what he did, and though I didn't like it, it made some sense. These characters had obviously been young and each were carrying their own emotional baggage when they first had had their aborted early relationship, and it was a pleasure seeing them come back together with both of them as more mature individuals who were ultimately motivated to embrace a second chance. I liked that the hero made early ovatures too and was instrumental in their meeting again. I also really liked that both characters were very intelligent and well respected in their own way. I thought the secondary characters were nice and a lot of fun too. Finally the excellent description of the setting and the combined old and new culture was frankly very interesting and appealing. All in all, a very enjoyable and quick read. Recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
an alpha who learns his lesson
By Sabrina
***spoilers****
I loved this one. I really like Lucy Monroe's Presents novels, and this one is no exception. I felt like that the male lead had learned his lesson from his past, and instead of it making him a complete jerk (like a lot of Presents heroes are), it made him appreciate and love the heroine even more. I understood (but did not agree with) Asad's reasons for leaving Iris, and I was heart broken for both of them. I loved that when the hero finally gets everything he thought he wanted, that he realizes what he had. I also liked the author's stance on virginity. In a lot of Harlequin Presents novels, the heroine's virginity is a short cut for her being a good person. In this novel, Asad realizes that though Iris hadn't been a virgin when they met, she was a woman of honor, integrity and love. I almost cried when I realized he named his daughter after Iris. That was beautiful, and it really brought home how much he loved her and what an idiot he had been to let her go. I also liked how the hero's pride was turned on its head. He wanted to marry the beautiful, virgin princess to prove to everyone that he was not an uneducated goat herder. But after getting the woman he thought he wanted, his pride was tested when he realized she was already pregnant, and her constant infidelity. He found pride in himself, and truly became a man deserving of a great woman like Iris. I loved how they both had been faithful to each other as well. A really moving book!
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