The Sheikh's Bartered Bride

Just okay. She was pretty wimpy and he didn't come out of it smelling like a rose. I guess it just wasn't romantic enough for me. The first part where he was fake romancing her was too long for my tastes and the end was just so so

Lucy Monore has done it again! This is an incredible love story, one which begins as an arranged marriage, and evolves into a passionate love affair. Secrets create and put up road blocks in the relationship with an incredible resolution. I highly recommend this East meets West love story.

BACK COVER:

Unbeknownst to shy, innocent Catherine Benning, she has been promised in marriage by her father to Sheikh Hakim bin Omar al Kadar. When the timid librarian meets the sheikh, she is immediately drawn to him, and after a whirlwind courtship she agrees to become his wife.

After their wedding, he takes her to his desert homeland of Jawhar to introduce her to his family. But it is there that Catherine discovers that their union was no love show more match--he bought her as part of a business deal with her father.

Angry and humiliated, Catherine's first thought is to leave...but how can she leave behind the man she has already fallen in love with? show less