The Sheik Retold — Victoria Vane

The Desert Was Never Hotter! Pride and passion vie for supremacy in this steamy retelling of E.M. Hull's romance classic. A haughty young heiress for whom the world is a playground… A savage son of the Sahara who knows no law but his own… "There will be inquiries." I choked out. "I am not such a nonentity that nothing will be done when I am missed. 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 have no jurisdiction over me. There is no authority here above my own." My trepidation was growing by the minute. "Why have you done this? Why brought me here?" "Why?" 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?" When pride and passion vie for supremacy... Blistering desert days are nothing compared to sizzling Sahara nights…