The Sheik's Secret Bride (Special Edition, 1331)

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Summary: How many sheiks does the Middle East have?
Review: Back Cover description: LIANA AND THE KING. Single mom Liana Archer had read her share of romance novels featuring dashing, passionate sheiks. Still, she was astonished when sinfully handsome Malik Khan, Crown Prince of exotic El Bahar, hijacked her and her little girl off an airliner and into his lavish palace. Why would the sexy desert prince want a passably pretty schoolteacher from San Bernadino? Dazed, breathless and mesmerized with desire, Liana quickly became Malik's royal bride. But dare she entrust her daughter--or her heart--to a man who would give them anything but his love? Or might a caring American mother and child finally move this proud, imperious monarch and make his kingdom complete?

This was an OK ending to the Desert Rogues brothers series. It just wasn't a great story. This teacher is going to be in this country for two years and it feels like she doesn't have a clue about the country. Also, I agree with some of the other reviewers about how different Malik is in this book than in the other two books. And, what's with these perfect children these heroines always have? If this kid was any better behaved, she'd be a saint.

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Summary: How many sheiks does the Middle East have?
Review: I really liked this book! Liana is a simple American teacher who has drawn the attention of Crown Prince Malik Khan. Naturally, this is unnerving for her. She understandably finds Prince Malik compelling, but she can't see why he would be interested in her at all. It is very realistic that she continues to have these doubts for quite a while in the story. An average american woman is going to question why she's with a future King, and is not going to just accept it within 2-3 pages. Malik is quite interesting himself. He has been trained since he was 4yrs old to be king. He feels the resposibility and honor of his people very deeply. However, he will not allow softer personal emotions to touch him, especially after the disaster of his first marriage. In fact, until he meets Liana he is willing to accept an arranged marriage. BUT, he does meet Liana and what follows is a touching and extremely romantic story.

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Summary: Enjoyable Read
Review: In The Sheik's Secret Bride Liana Archer is a single mother of a nine year old who is off to the fictional country of El Bahar to teach at the America School. As soon as her plane lands it is hijacked by desert rogues. Of course she is concerned, but then the Crown Prince of El Bahar, Malik Khan, immediately assures everyone that the boarding of the plane was only a fantasy being played out for a newly engaged couple. Then Malik and Liana's eyes meet and they are immediately attracted to each other. He pretends indifference at first but then does everything in his power to keep this single mother with him while she resists out of pride and fear.

This is the third book in a series called Desert Rogues and the third that I have read and it is just not good. It's like the author got bored with the story line before she finished her contract. Malik showed up in the other two books and is acting completely out of character. Susan Mallery's sex scenes are so contrived and overblown that I could not stand to read them. for example he "searches for the center of her being" and a "Light dusting of hair bisected his flat belly, drawing her gaze to his impressive throbbing need." The author can not even come close to making these two peoples genitals sound real but later has both of them perform oral sex on the other.

It is like the author found a cardboard copy of what she thought was the average romance reader and put her in as the main character. She made the woman blond, a single mother, 20 pounds overweight and an avid romance reader and she repeats these statistics over and over. Now, I know as a reader of romance novels that occasionally I am going to get a little schmaltz, I like a little schmaltz sometimes. What I don't like is being talked down to and that is what I felt was happening wile I read this book.

The only reason I finished it was because I had read the other two in the series. That is the only reason to buy this book as well.

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Summary: From Back Cover
Review: LIANA AND THE KING.

Single mom Liana Archer had read her share of romance novels featuring dashing, passionate sheiks. Still, she was astonished when sinfully handsome Malik Khan, Crown Prince of exotic El Bahar, hijacked her and her little girl off an airliner and into his lavish palace. Why would the sexy desert prince want a passably pretty schoolteacher from San Bernadino? Dazed, breathless and mesmerized with desire, Liana quickly became Malik's royal bride. But dare she entrust her daughter--or her heart--to a man who would give them anything but his love? Or might a caring American mother and child finally move this proud, imperious monarch and make his kingdom complete?

Third in the Desert Rogues series


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Summary: Another great one!
Review: Susan Mallery did it again. I loved this book and contrary to earlier reviews, I thought the sex scences were hot!

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Summary: Worth the reading time!
Review: The Crowned Prince see's the new teacher for the American School and her daughter get off the plane and decides then and there that he wants her. So he takes her home and settles her into the palace and a romance insues that Lana (our young single mother) isn't all that sure she wants. Malik our strong, stiff-uper-lip type crowned prince is more than willing to give the woman he wants anything she wants but his heart. Unfortunately, she only wants his heart, for her all the rest of the royal trappings is just frosting on the cake. This is the concluding book in a wonderfull little trillogy by Ms. Mallery, and it is Definately worth the reading time!!