THE SHEIK RETOLD
BY
VICTORIA VANE
Book Blurb:
THE SHEIK
RETOLD by Victoria Vane and E.M. Hull
ISBN-13:978-1492169956
ISBN-10:1492169951
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."
"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?"
EXCERPT:
"Look at me."
I shivered, my downcast gaze
wavering only briefly before defying him again.
"Look at me." An
inflection had crept into his low tone that was unmistakably commanding.
I lifted my gaze with great
reluctance and met his in the mirror. Though I wanted to, I could not look away
from his handsome sun-bronzed face with those inscrutable eyes. They were not
black as I had thought, but the deepest indigo blue. Dark and intense, they
burned into me. I was fascinated. Mesmerized.
He swung me around to him,
taking my chin in hand and tilting it upward. "Bon Dieu! Do you know how beautiful you are?" His gaze dropped
to my clothing, and his eyes became fierce again, his stern mouth parting in a
cruel show of teeth. "Perhaps you are unaware that Zilah shall be severely
punished for your foolish rebellion?"
"No!" I cried,
straining back as far as his grip allowed. "It wasn't her fault. I sent
her away."
"You sent her away
before my wishes were carried out?"
"Will you kill her too?
Like you did the horse?" I accused. "If you kill everything that does
not obey you, you might as well shoot me now!"
"I will deal with the
girl as it suits me." His glower had broken, replaced by a mixture of mild
anger and patent amusement. "As to you, ma belle, it appears I must be your valet, as well as your
lover."
"Lover?" I gave a
contemptuous laugh. "Is that how you perceive
yourself?"
He
lifted a brow above his fathomless eyes. "You question my prowess?"
I
remained stoically defiant, letting my silence speak.
His
black brows met in a thunderous scowl. "There are many things you must
learn, ma chère. Of utmost import to
your well-being is that, save only for Allah, there is no will in this camp
above my own." He continued impassively, "I could have you now, you
know. In this very moment, I could tear your clothes, throw you down on that
bed, and take you any way and as many times as I wish." He paused, smiling
at the flare of fear in my eyes. "Fortunately for you, that is not my wish…at present."
He
stroked the pad of his thumb over my lips. His expression grew almost
whimsical. "Shall I make you care, cherie?
Shall I make it your deepest desire, your only
desire, to please me? I can make any woman love me when I choose."
He
was amusing himself at my expense. He did not care if I hated or loved him, but
was only enjoying a new form of torture, one that was even more detestable than
anything that had gone before it. The mere suggestion that I could ever care
for him, that I would ever look on him as anything but a brutal savage,
infuriated me. I felt degraded and soiled that he would class me with the other
women he spoke of. "I would rather you killed me," I replied coldly.
"So would I." He
chuckled drily. "If you loved me, you would bore me to death.
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
CONTACT:
victoria.vane@hotmail.comWeb:
Twitter: @authorvictoriav
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Victoria’s author page at Author Victoria Vane
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