Desert Bride — Joanne Redd

FROM ENGLAND TO A PASHA'S HAREM TO THE BURNING SANDS OF THE SAHARA...
Fleeing an English nobleman's wrath, Lorna Winters became a Barbary pirate's prize, sold to a pasha's harem. Her violet eyes and auburn hair promised a king's ransom--and soon it came, delivered by an arrogant American adventurer. But had Lorna merely traded one captivity for another? All she could see was escape in the arms of an irresistible stranger. Infuriating, commanding, Nathan Sloan would make her his prisoner, his love slave. Powerless to resist, she gave him her body but dared not surrender her heart, for she knew he would leave her once he'd brought her to safety.

No man knew the sea or the desert as well as Captain Nathan Sloan did. And no man was more loath to fulfill his mission--until he saw the prize, a woman made to tempt the devil himself. Soon he was obsessed by the fiery beauty who ignited his senses and commanded his heart. Driven by passion and revenge, he would defy man, the elements, and Lorna herself. He would stop at nothing to make her his...