The Shiek Retold by Victoria Vane and E. M. Hull
Release Date: August 28, 2013
SYNOPSIS
SYNOPSIS
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…
When pride and passion vie for supremacy...
Blistering
desert days are nothing compared to sizzling Sahara nights…
"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 Government has no jurisdiction
over me. There is no authority here above my own."
My trepidation was growing every passing 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?"
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About the Author:
Victoria
Vane is an award-winning romance novelist, cowboy addict and history junkie
whose collective works of fiction range from wildly comedic romps to
emotionally compelling erotic romance. Victoria also writes historical fiction
as Emery Lee and is the founder of Goodreads Romantic Historical Fiction Lovers
and the Romantic Historical Lovers book review blog.
Look for Victoria's
Contemporary Cowboy Series coming summer 2014 from Sourcebooks
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Excerpt
He
chuckled lowly, a smug and self-satisfied sound. "Say it now, ma chère," he softly demanded.
"Tell me you want this above all things. Tell me you want me."
I
did. Desperately, but it was only the fleeting lust of the flesh that I
craved—not him. Never him. "You have forced
this upon me," I hissed in a rage of frustration. "This means
nothing—proves nothing."
"As
you will….I can be a patient man— when I choose to be."
His
weight shifted away from me, and then it was gone from the bed. He removed the
blindfold and then gave a single tug on the silk cord binding me to the bed. My
arms instantly released from above my head, and then just as suddenly, he freed
my legs.
I
instantly scrambled to my knees, dragging the silken coverings up around me as
if their thin shelter were a protection. "Are you finished with me
now?" I asked breathlessly.
"Finished?"
His expression was mixed mockery and mirth. "Par bleu! I have hardly even begun, but for now, I shall leave you
in peace." He strode to the curtained doorway only to turn back to me with
a sardonic bow. "Bonne nuit et doux rêves, ma chérie."
He had left me alone. Alone in a state of dazed
bewilderment and intense sexual frustration—for I knew damned well what I was
feeling— and it made me want to screech and claw and rail.
The
man was a mystery, an unfathomable enigma. My mind could not reconcile his
barbaric ways with the evidence of his education and refinement. I had noticed
a dozen incongruities in him—his cultured speech, the well-worn books in the
tent, the elegant and fastidious order of his appointments. His cruel words and
contradictory tender touch crowded my recollection until my head reeled, yet I
was too tired to puzzle it out, too spent in mind and body.
I
did not know what would come on the morrow but gave in to my exhaustion and
sank into a cocoon of covers. In the
course of a single day, my entire being had irrevocably changed. At long last,
and with the greatest possible resistance, I was learning obedience and
humility—at the hands of this incomprehensible savage.
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