Harlequin Presents
July 2010
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Featuring: Sheikh Razi al Maktabi; Lucy Tennant
192 pages ISBN: 0373527756 EAN: 9780373527755 Mass Market Paperback Add to Wish List
Women around the world sighed when Sheikh Razi al
Maktabi declared his playboy days were over and duty would
be his new mistress.
But he found time for one final
fling before he took his desert throne, and curvy chef Lucy
Tennant certainly whetted His Majesty's appetite. A wiz in
the kitchen, Lucy was a beginner in the bedroom, and Razi
couldn't resist one last challenge.
But one night has
led to the scandal of the century! Lucy has unexpectedly
arrived at the desert palace with her luggage…proud and
pregnant!
A true romantic, heroine, Lucy Tennant meets bad-boy sheikh, Razi al Maktabi in a French ski resort...
Writing about two brothers, both sheikhs, and both rulers of neighbouring countries, gave me the opportunity to explore two very different personalities. Sheikh Razi al Maktabi, my hero in Ruling Sheikh, Unruly Mistress is the younger brother. Protected as a child by his elder brother Ra’id, Razi is now highly successful, both in business and in bed. We have no idea what he might be capable of until we see him tested. Razi is one of those urbane, confident men, who seems unattainable but deep down Razi is searching too. Fortunate to have true friends he has known all his life, Razi is well aware that a man in his position can attract false friends too, and that the women who cross his path sometimes see no further than his money and status. Razi is a strong, determined man, who, knowing that his playboy life is at an end, is determined to devote himself to his country to the exclusion of everything else. Razi is deeply kind and compassionate beneath his apparently unbreachable shell, and for this reason I gave him a vulnerable heroine – curvy chef, Lucy Tennant — a quiet girl, with a vivid inner life. Lucy learned that she had nothing interesting to say growing up in a large, noisy family, where she was the only girl, and where her brothers and parents were brilliant academics. But that didn’t stop Lucy dreaming. In fact, the less she spoke, the more she dreamed, until one day she stole away from the family home without anyone really noticing. Starting at the very bottom in a professional kitchen, Lucy worked her way up until finally she is offered a job as a chef, catering for a top class chalet company. It is here that Lucy is destined to meet a man who will change her life forever. Having decided to keep his identity a secret, Razi is intrigued by the quiet, dutiful girl who is oblivious to celebrity and all its trappings.