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The Sheikh's Revenge
Sharif al Kader possessed the courage, arrogance and pride of a true desert king in exotic Zubani.
When Samira, his betrothed, elopes with an English pilot, Kader's response is immediate. He abducts the pilot's fair sister, who is working in Zubani as a teacher, to take the place of his missing bride-to-be.
Imprisoned in his lavish palace deep within the desert, Leah Marlow braces herself to fight the merciless assault of this powerful, yet gentle and sensual man. She does this against her body, her will, and her very soul.
When Samira, his betrothed, elopes with an English pilot, Kader's response is immediate. He abducts the pilot's fair sister, who is working in Zubani as a teacher, to take the place of his missing bride-to-be.
Imprisoned in his lavish palace deep within the desert, Leah Marlow braces herself to fight the merciless assault of this powerful, yet gentle and sensual man. She does this against her body, her will, and her very soul.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published October 1, 1993
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Emma Darcy
640 books326 followersEmma Darcy is the pseudonym created by the married writing team of Wendy (1940-2020) and Frank Brennan (1936-1995). Their life journey has taken as many twists and turns as the characters in their stories, whose international popularity has resulted in over sixty-million book sales. With more than a hundred titles, Emma Darcy appeared regularly on the Waldenbooks bestseller lists in the U.S.A. and in the Nielson BookScan Top 100 chart in the U.K.
Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. Her sister was the novelist Maureen Mary (Miranda Lee). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, an Australian businessman born in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere.
As voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrotes books on her own. She lived in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, and liked to travel extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people.
Wendy Brennan passed away on December 21, 2020. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and sister, writer Miranda Lee.
Wendy was born 28 November 1940 in Australia. Her sister was the novelist Maureen Mary (Miranda Lee). Her father was a country school teacher and brilliant sportsman. Her mother was a talented dressmaker. She obtained an Honours degree in Latin and initially worked as a high school English/French teacher. She married Frank Brennan, an Australian businessman born in 1936. She changed careers to computer programming before marriage and motherhood settled her into a community life. She was reputedly the first woman computer programmer in the southern hemisphere.
As voracious readers, the step to writing their own books seemed a natural progression and the challenge of creating exciting stories was soon highly addictive. They were published since 1983. In 1993, for the Emma Darcy pseudonym's 10th anniversary, they created the "Emma Darcy Award Contest" to encourage authors to finish their manuscripts. After the death of Frank Brennan in 1995, Wendy wrotes books on her own. She lived in a beachside property on the central coast of New South Wales, and liked to travel extensively to research settings and increase her experience of places and people.
Wendy Brennan passed away on December 21, 2020. She is survived by her children, grandchildren, and sister, writer Miranda Lee.
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September 11, 2018
Holy Stockholm Syndrome, Batman. This heroine falls for her rapist/forced seducer in less than a month. Hero is a Sheikh who is betrothed to a princess of a made up country.The heroine's brother runs away with the princess, so the hero abducts the heroine.
There's more going on than that (Boogenhagen has the details in her review), but suffice the to say that the heroine drinks the Kool-aid and never looks back even when her estranged father shows up to ransom her.
I never got a sense of who the H/h were - the hero talked in slogans and the heroine was busy coming up with chose your own adventure scenarios and enjoying the sex. I wasn't buying an HEA or a relationship of equals.
There's more going on than that (Boogenhagen has the details in her review), but suffice the to say that the heroine drinks the Kool-aid and never looks back even when her estranged father shows up to ransom her.
I never got a sense of who the H/h were - the hero talked in slogans and the heroine was busy coming up with chose your own adventure scenarios and enjoying the sex. I wasn't buying an HEA or a relationship of equals.
March 1, 2018
Re The Shiekh's Revenge - Emma Darcy gives us her attempt at HP pastiche homage of the traditional Shiekhy Lurve story. Shades of The Sheik by Edith Hull litter the pages of this one.
The h is an Australian that has spent 8 yrs in a Traditional Arabian Kingdom. She came with her brother, who is a hot shot pilot in personal service to the country's king, after her parents divorced and essentially abandoned their children for their new spouses and families.
The h is the quiet but sorta sometimes feisty type. She mainly does needlework of famous paintings, reads a few stories to the palace children and acts as a semi companion to the palace's princesses. One of the princesses is scheduled to marry the High Sheikh of a neighboring kingdom.
We get our first glimpse of him when he comes to harass and condescend to the blonde h who will be assisting in the care of the plot tot daughters from his first marriage, his first wife died. The Sheikhy H gets lascivious with the eyeball undressing of the h, accuses her of being the concubine of someone in the palace and then threatens her with her brother's unemployment if she doesn't agree to go with the engaged princess to the H's kingdom when he marries her.
It is pretty easy to see the H is planning a royal marriage and a blonde bit on the side as well. But before the wedding can happen, the engaged princess elopes with the h's pilot brother. The h is kicked out of her current kingdom and abducted to the H's kingdom.
Where he proceeds to forcibly seduce her with the implied use of drugs to make her compliant. (ED doesn't come out and say he drugs her, but the h's reactions and the drinks the H forces on her definitely lean that way.) The h does try to stab him, but he easily disarms her and then the full on forced seduction lurve mojo is on.
To the h's credit, she has the inevitable body betrayal syndrome, but it takes a few months for her to succumb to the HP Lurve Mojo Force and claim her lust is true love. There is another Royal Nurse Maid in the story and she has all the hallmarks of the HP OW. In a refreshing change for such a stereotyped tropey story, she is not the OW.
She is the H's cousin and she helps the h to make an escape attempt. Which is foiled of course, the H sends his helicopters to stop the h's car on the road out of town. But the non-OW is actually in love with Crown Prince brother of the princess who eloped with the h's brother and she wants the h to help her win him as her hubby.
The h's father also makes a somewhat disjointed appearance. Seemingly contrite about his abdication of parental responsibility for the h since she was 10 yrs old for his new wife and family, he seems more than willing to pay a ransom to rescue the h.
Ransoms won't work cause the Sheikhy H doesn't do wire transfers or Visa and the h has already drank the lurve club kool-aid anyways. She tells her now reconciled father that she is happy being the H's bit on the side, even tho he will probably marry one of the neighbor's other royal princess daughters.
Then the h's brother and his princess bride make their return, ready to pay with their lives for their transgression against the Sheikhy H's mighty ego. The h and the non-OW decide to storm the men-only proceedings and sort things out without bloodshed.
It works. The non-OW demands the Crown Prince as her husband, the h demands the H hire the brother as HIS personal pilot now, (so he can shoot down the neighboring King's planes, as he is just that good,) and the two ladies declare it a win for the Shiekhy H's ego.
Cause the H got the king's hot shot pilot, the royal princess is now a servant's wife, he also married his own cousin off to be the future queen of the neighboring kingdom and the neighbor King is going to pay a lot of money, give up a village and have egg on his face.
The Sheikhy H, whose every utterance in the book is proclaimed like a Royal Announcement, declares that the h and he will be married for the sweeping desert sands HP HEA. The h is overjoyed cause she loves the mighty sheikhy club of lurve and he lets her do women's issues like checking out clinics for ladies and reading children's books to his daughters and we can be happy the h is happy for another conclusive HP outing.
I wasn't feeling the lurve on this one. ED did her best to make this a sheiky lurve ode romp in the sands, but continual forced seduction is not really my cuppa and all the characters were so cardboard that a stiff breeze would have toppled them over.
This one read like a bad voiceover of a combination of the The Sheikh and 1001 Nights and it was not working for me. I alternated between boredom, distaste and just plain not caring. However mileage always varies and the story is well written, so this may just be your HP cup of tea.
The h is an Australian that has spent 8 yrs in a Traditional Arabian Kingdom. She came with her brother, who is a hot shot pilot in personal service to the country's king, after her parents divorced and essentially abandoned their children for their new spouses and families.
The h is the quiet but sorta sometimes feisty type. She mainly does needlework of famous paintings, reads a few stories to the palace children and acts as a semi companion to the palace's princesses. One of the princesses is scheduled to marry the High Sheikh of a neighboring kingdom.
We get our first glimpse of him when he comes to harass and condescend to the blonde h who will be assisting in the care of the plot tot daughters from his first marriage, his first wife died. The Sheikhy H gets lascivious with the eyeball undressing of the h, accuses her of being the concubine of someone in the palace and then threatens her with her brother's unemployment if she doesn't agree to go with the engaged princess to the H's kingdom when he marries her.
It is pretty easy to see the H is planning a royal marriage and a blonde bit on the side as well. But before the wedding can happen, the engaged princess elopes with the h's pilot brother. The h is kicked out of her current kingdom and abducted to the H's kingdom.
Where he proceeds to forcibly seduce her with the implied use of drugs to make her compliant. (ED doesn't come out and say he drugs her, but the h's reactions and the drinks the H forces on her definitely lean that way.) The h does try to stab him, but he easily disarms her and then the full on forced seduction lurve mojo is on.
To the h's credit, she has the inevitable body betrayal syndrome, but it takes a few months for her to succumb to the HP Lurve Mojo Force and claim her lust is true love. There is another Royal Nurse Maid in the story and she has all the hallmarks of the HP OW. In a refreshing change for such a stereotyped tropey story, she is not the OW.
She is the H's cousin and she helps the h to make an escape attempt. Which is foiled of course, the H sends his helicopters to stop the h's car on the road out of town. But the non-OW is actually in love with Crown Prince brother of the princess who eloped with the h's brother and she wants the h to help her win him as her hubby.
The h's father also makes a somewhat disjointed appearance. Seemingly contrite about his abdication of parental responsibility for the h since she was 10 yrs old for his new wife and family, he seems more than willing to pay a ransom to rescue the h.
Ransoms won't work cause the Sheikhy H doesn't do wire transfers or Visa and the h has already drank the lurve club kool-aid anyways. She tells her now reconciled father that she is happy being the H's bit on the side, even tho he will probably marry one of the neighbor's other royal princess daughters.
Then the h's brother and his princess bride make their return, ready to pay with their lives for their transgression against the Sheikhy H's mighty ego. The h and the non-OW decide to storm the men-only proceedings and sort things out without bloodshed.
It works. The non-OW demands the Crown Prince as her husband, the h demands the H hire the brother as HIS personal pilot now, (so he can shoot down the neighboring King's planes, as he is just that good,) and the two ladies declare it a win for the Shiekhy H's ego.
Cause the H got the king's hot shot pilot, the royal princess is now a servant's wife, he also married his own cousin off to be the future queen of the neighboring kingdom and the neighbor King is going to pay a lot of money, give up a village and have egg on his face.
The Sheikhy H, whose every utterance in the book is proclaimed like a Royal Announcement, declares that the h and he will be married for the sweeping desert sands HP HEA. The h is overjoyed cause she loves the mighty sheikhy club of lurve and he lets her do women's issues like checking out clinics for ladies and reading children's books to his daughters and we can be happy the h is happy for another conclusive HP outing.
I wasn't feeling the lurve on this one. ED did her best to make this a sheiky lurve ode romp in the sands, but continual forced seduction is not really my cuppa and all the characters were so cardboard that a stiff breeze would have toppled them over.
This one read like a bad voiceover of a combination of the The Sheikh and 1001 Nights and it was not working for me. I alternated between boredom, distaste and just plain not caring. However mileage always varies and the story is well written, so this may just be your HP cup of tea.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
August 13, 2021
"The Sheikh's Revenge" is the story of Leah and Sharif.
The heroine becomes a ploy in the hero's revenge, when her brother elopes with his bethroted. Kidnapped against her will, she is unexpectedly wooed and seduced by him. She expects him to let go after bedding her, but he decides to hold on to her a lot stronger. We deal with lots of cross country politics, updates about other couples- before the book ends in a pleasant HEA.
I enjoyed it! The hero was very smitten with the heroine, and she wasn't a doormat. I wish we explored her relationship with his kids but this still was a good read.
Safe
3/5
The heroine becomes a ploy in the hero's revenge, when her brother elopes with his bethroted. Kidnapped against her will, she is unexpectedly wooed and seduced by him. She expects him to let go after bedding her, but he decides to hold on to her a lot stronger. We deal with lots of cross country politics, updates about other couples- before the book ends in a pleasant HEA.
I enjoyed it! The hero was very smitten with the heroine, and she wasn't a doormat. I wish we explored her relationship with his kids but this still was a good read.
Safe
3/5
May 12, 2015
Every now and again I pick up one of these books at my local charity shop, which makes me glad that it only cost me a few pennies. Leah Marlow and her brother Glen work for King Rashid, she a companion to the Kings children, while her brother was his personal pilot. The palace was full of excitement as the Kings daughter princess Samira was to marry Sharif al Kadir the Sheikh of Zubani. But the night before the wedding Leah's brother and the princess run away together. Leah who's been left behind has to face King Rashid's fury alone and is immediately expelled from the kingdom. But instead of being taken to the airport, she finds herself a prisoner of Kadir. He intends to exact his revenge upon her for the loss of his bride.
If it wasn't for the fact that this is set in modern times you might be forgiven for thinking that this was a period story. The characters are very unappealing, Leah seems to thrive on being a victim, instead of being furious that her brother left her behind to face the consequences of his actions, she revels in playing the martyr. As for Kadir he was a very unattractive character, he kidnaps Leah and then forces himself on her time and time again. Eventually with the aid of a third party Leah manages to escape only to be recaptured very quickly, she then claims to have fallen in love with Kadir, I found that not only incredulous but very confusing, and that's how I would describe this story overall, confusing and chaotic. Not a good read at all.
July 27, 2021
Her brother eloped with his fiancé. Sharif al Kader possessed the courage, arrogance and pride of a true desert king in exotic Zubani.
When Samira, his betrothed, elopes with an English pilot, Kader's response is immediate. He abducts the pilot's fair sister, who is working in Zubani as a teacher, to take the place of his missing bride-to-be.
Imprisoned in his lavish palace deep within the desert, Leah Marlow braces herself to fight the merciless assault of this powerful, yet gentle and sensual man. She does this against her body, her will, and her very soul.
When Samira, his betrothed, elopes with an English pilot, Kader's response is immediate. He abducts the pilot's fair sister, who is working in Zubani as a teacher, to take the place of his missing bride-to-be.
Imprisoned in his lavish palace deep within the desert, Leah Marlow braces herself to fight the merciless assault of this powerful, yet gentle and sensual man. She does this against her body, her will, and her very soul.
February 20, 2018
I actually loved this book - I didn't think I would, that it'd be a total wallbanger!
But while the H had a couple arrogant asshole moments, he grew on me.
I was initially worried that Tayi was set to become an OW-type obstacle and was so surprised and happy to find her becoming the h's ally and accomplice! I totally was calling them the Sisterhood of Chaos by the end of the book; I loved the fact that these female characters bonded together and sought to help each other achieve their dreams, it was a great touch!
But while the H had a couple arrogant asshole moments, he grew on me.
I was initially worried that Tayi was set to become an OW-type obstacle and was so surprised and happy to find her becoming the h's ally and accomplice! I totally was calling them the Sisterhood of Chaos by the end of the book; I loved the fact that these female characters bonded together and sought to help each other achieve their dreams, it was a great touch!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 25, 2020
Livre intéressant mais assez prévisible et assez cliché.
April 22, 2012
Titre vf : La vengeance du cheikh
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