No terms for surrender. Sharif al Kader possessed the courage, arrogance and pride of a true desert king. Whe wronged, he exacted swift retribution. And when his betrothed eloped with an English pilot, Kader's response was immediate. He abducted the pilot's sister, Leah, to take his bride-to-be's place in their wedding bed. Imprisoned in his lavish palace deed within the desert, Leah braced herself to fight the merciless assault of this powerful man - against her body, her will and her very soul.