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Sheikh Issam doesn’t have time to find a bride. He’d rather a
sign would appear to him, signaling the perfect woman and save him the
trouble of finding her. However, he didn’t foresee the sign being the
sister-in-law of his rival nation’s president crashing into the holiest
temple in his country. Now, he and the fearsome beauty must find a way
to circumvent the ancient religious law that demands her death—or he’ll
face war on three fronts.
Mackenzie came to Al-Dashalid with a mission: save the women’s shelter that had taken root in a disputed fort between Al-Dashalid and her brother-in-law’s country. With war growing more likely every day, she doesn’t have time to waste arguing her way out of an unjust death sentence. She’s ready to sit down with Sheikh Issam and make sure he understands that the safety of the women and children in the shelter is more important than his alpha-male posturing.
What Mackenzie isn’t ready for is Issam offering her the perfect out: marriage. Members of the royal family are exempt from prosecution of holy law. He’ll meet his marriage deadline, and she’ll have his ear about the disputed fort and its vulnerable occupants. It seems perfect.
Now if only she could get him to listen…AMAZON 3 STARS
Let me say right off the bat that I have read other books by Leslie North and I liked them. I also liked that this book had a strong female lead like Mackenzie in it. I enjoyed that Issam's family was part of the story. However, this book just didn't do it for me. It felt like it was a book with sex being the main dish with some story built around it. I had high hopes for it in the beginning because I had read this book excerpt in a different book. It sounded like it was going to be really good. While it had some good points, it didn't totally get there...for me.
Doesn't that mean that I won't be reading any more books by this author? No, it just means I couldn't connect that well to this one. It was just Okay.
“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”
Mackenzie came to Al-Dashalid with a mission: save the women’s shelter that had taken root in a disputed fort between Al-Dashalid and her brother-in-law’s country. With war growing more likely every day, she doesn’t have time to waste arguing her way out of an unjust death sentence. She’s ready to sit down with Sheikh Issam and make sure he understands that the safety of the women and children in the shelter is more important than his alpha-male posturing.
What Mackenzie isn’t ready for is Issam offering her the perfect out: marriage. Members of the royal family are exempt from prosecution of holy law. He’ll meet his marriage deadline, and she’ll have his ear about the disputed fort and its vulnerable occupants. It seems perfect.
Now if only she could get him to listen…AMAZON 3 STARS
Let me say right off the bat that I have read other books by Leslie North and I liked them. I also liked that this book had a strong female lead like Mackenzie in it. I enjoyed that Issam's family was part of the story. However, this book just didn't do it for me. It felt like it was a book with sex being the main dish with some story built around it. I had high hopes for it in the beginning because I had read this book excerpt in a different book. It sounded like it was going to be really good. While it had some good points, it didn't totally get there...for me.
Doesn't that mean that I won't be reading any more books by this author? No, it just means I couldn't connect that well to this one. It was just Okay.
“I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.”
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