Welcome to the city of mystery and enchantment...

Come closer… er, not too close! Ah, there you are. Welcome to Agraba, the city of mystery and enchantment… Thus begins my favorite Disney classic, ALADDIN, as a funny little man in a striped tunic tries to sell us his goods and enthralls us in a magical tale of love and glory. What a storyteller!

Hello readers! My name is Rona Sharon, a debut storyteller from Tel Aviv, Israel, eager to enthrall you in another magical tale of love and glory, set in the 18th century. Why do I write in English and not in Hebrew, you may ask. For two reasons: 1. To my deepest regret, this fine literary genre we all love doesn’t exist in my sunny country on the Mediterranean Sea, which is why I am most likely Barnes & Noble’s #1 on-line shopper of romances; and 2. How many of you read Hebrew?

Well, then, since I am a freak of American romance novels but also a foreigner from across the Atlantic Ocean, think of me as that funny little man in the striped tunic about to sweep you into a fantastic adventure in the grand tradition of one of my idols, Rosemary Rogers, who very kindly read my debut novel MY WICKED PIRATE (Kensington, November 2006) and proclaimed it "A rich, sweeping, passionate read. Rona Sharon instantly takes her place among the romance greats!"

MY WICKED PIRATE is a black-haired, blue-eyed devil I invented during an amazing vacation in Lake Como in Northern Italy. What is the connection between a ruthless pirate prowling the High Seas and a palazzo in Northern Italy? That’s what Lady Alanis struggles to solve from the moment she sets eyes on her darkly irresistible captor, who stormed her ship off the coast of Jamaica and offered to show her the world outside her golden cage. Set on the milky path toward matrimony with the viscount of her grandfather’s choice, Alanis realizes this may be her onetime opportunity to taste sunshine and freedom and glimpse the fuller, richer life she truly desires. And so begins her "Indiana Jones" style adventure to the Kasbah of Algiers, the vine-run Tuscany, and the glamorous ballrooms of Europe. Yet no matter how overwhelmingly attracted she is to her Machiavellian escort, Alanis must curb her passions, for where he loves, he does not desire… and where he desires, he cannot love. Her wicked pirate must surrender first and reveal his secret, or lose the one woman who knows his heart and tempts his libido beyond reason. But how could he surrender when this fiery goddess of grace is the woman liable to bring about his downfall?