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In the Sheikh's Arms
In The Sheikh's Arms by Sue Swift released on Feb 21, 2003 is available now for purchase.
192 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published March 1, 2003
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About the author
Sue Swift
42 books16 followersAn American, Sue Swift has visited over a dozen countries and lived in some of them. She has written over a dozen books; some have been translated into over a dozen languages. Not surprisingly she is often confused by her incessant multi-tasking.
To make matters more chaotic, she writes erotic romance as Suz deMello and works as a freelance editor.
Her hobbies are yoga and world travel. After a stint teaching English to toddlers in China, she's back in NoCal writing and editing. She blogs about her experiences at http://www.susanoverseas.weebly.com and http://www.fearlessfastpacedfiction.com
To make matters more chaotic, she writes erotic romance as Suz deMello and works as a freelance editor.
Her hobbies are yoga and world travel. After a stint teaching English to toddlers in China, she's back in NoCal writing and editing. She blogs about her experiences at http://www.susanoverseas.weebly.com and http://www.fearlessfastpacedfiction.com
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May 25, 2021
Just a nice story. Revenge-lite.
Hero is the fourth son of Arabian royalty. He moves to Texas at age 20 to seek his fortune. Unfortunately, he’s swindled by the heroine’s father because of his poor English. Hero buys the land, but not the mineral rights to the oil underneath it. (Heroine was willed the mineral rights by her mother at nine-years-old.) So, hero vows revenge and will bide his time until the heroine is of age.
Ten years later, the hero has an established horse farm on the adjoining land he bought from the heroine’s father. Heroine is home for college and is ripe for romance and some adventure. The author does an excellent job of portraying that restlessness of youth without making the heroine too naïve or too sophisticated.
I won’t go into all the plot details, but suffice it to say that the heroine does fall for the hero – their courtship is lovely to read. And the hero does get his revenge, which backfires (of course). There is a third part to the story, set in the hero’s kingdom, where the H/h learn to work as a couple. That is really nice, too.
I liked both the H/h. Hero’s thoughts were typically male chauvinist sheikh, but he was quite endearing. Heroine was delightfully confused and then more and more confident.
Hero is the fourth son of Arabian royalty. He moves to Texas at age 20 to seek his fortune. Unfortunately, he’s swindled by the heroine’s father because of his poor English. Hero buys the land, but not the mineral rights to the oil underneath it. (Heroine was willed the mineral rights by her mother at nine-years-old.) So, hero vows revenge and will bide his time until the heroine is of age.
Ten years later, the hero has an established horse farm on the adjoining land he bought from the heroine’s father. Heroine is home for college and is ripe for romance and some adventure. The author does an excellent job of portraying that restlessness of youth without making the heroine too naïve or too sophisticated.
I won’t go into all the plot details, but suffice it to say that the heroine does fall for the hero – their courtship is lovely to read. And the hero does get his revenge, which backfires (of course). There is a third part to the story, set in the hero’s kingdom, where the H/h learn to work as a couple. That is really nice, too.
I liked both the H/h. Hero’s thoughts were typically male chauvinist sheikh, but he was quite endearing. Heroine was delightfully confused and then more and more confident.
September 1, 2009
This was a cute, enjoyable romance. Cami was sassy and lifelike for a heroine. She was a Texas girl that could be walking on the streets of San Antonio, going out Texas two-stepping, or riding her horse in real life. Although Cami was a very young heroine, only nineteen, I didn't find her immature. She was young and had some idealistic views, but she showed maturity when it counted, and definitely met Ray head on.
Rayhan was hot. He was a bit behind in his views about women, 'wanting a pure vessel to carry his seed' although he played the field with unvirtuous American girls that he condemned with this mouth. Men! He did an underhanded thing, deliberately courting his enemy's daughter to get her oil rights, but I believed he manned up in the end and showed his devotion to Cami. It was kind of a complicated situation with her father swindling him. He certainly shouldn't have held onto his need for vengeance for ten years, but there was a part of his heritage, the need to seek vengeance. Funny how men in some of these books always want to use the heroine for said vengeance. And look at me reading these books.
Ray didn't want to admit but he fell fast and hard for Cami. I liked that he showed his commitment to her refusing by taking another wife, when he easily could have. Although Cami would have left him faster than you can drop a hot potato (not that I blame her). Cami showed her maturity and her strength in how she handled the situation with Ray's betrothed (a match made by his interfering brother the King).
This book had some really good sexual tension between Cami and Ray. It was odd how the writer would cut away from the love scenes, though. I've read Silhouette Romances with love scenes (not extremely explicit mind you). But I felt the love play between Cami and Ray was on the more descriptive side, and kind of set you up for some bedroom fireworks (and they were married at the time). Alas, the door closed between the deed was done and opened afterwards. What a shame.
My favorite part was when they were in Ray's home kingdom Adnan. It was a beautiful place, and the atmosphere felt very authentic. I think that Ms. Swift did her research and it showed. I felt like I was there. And what a nice trip it was. I enjoyed seeing the scenes where the family sat down to a casual dinner, and Cami feeds her niece by marriage. It was very nice to read about.
Although In The Sheikh's Arms didn't break any ground as a sheikh romance, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I would definitely recommend it as a fan of the genre, and I am adding it to my keeper shelf.
Rayhan was hot. He was a bit behind in his views about women, 'wanting a pure vessel to carry his seed' although he played the field with unvirtuous American girls that he condemned with this mouth. Men! He did an underhanded thing, deliberately courting his enemy's daughter to get her oil rights, but I believed he manned up in the end and showed his devotion to Cami. It was kind of a complicated situation with her father swindling him. He certainly shouldn't have held onto his need for vengeance for ten years, but there was a part of his heritage, the need to seek vengeance. Funny how men in some of these books always want to use the heroine for said vengeance. And look at me reading these books.
Ray didn't want to admit but he fell fast and hard for Cami. I liked that he showed his commitment to her refusing by taking another wife, when he easily could have. Although Cami would have left him faster than you can drop a hot potato (not that I blame her). Cami showed her maturity and her strength in how she handled the situation with Ray's betrothed (a match made by his interfering brother the King).
This book had some really good sexual tension between Cami and Ray. It was odd how the writer would cut away from the love scenes, though. I've read Silhouette Romances with love scenes (not extremely explicit mind you). But I felt the love play between Cami and Ray was on the more descriptive side, and kind of set you up for some bedroom fireworks (and they were married at the time). Alas, the door closed between the deed was done and opened afterwards. What a shame.
My favorite part was when they were in Ray's home kingdom Adnan. It was a beautiful place, and the atmosphere felt very authentic. I think that Ms. Swift did her research and it showed. I felt like I was there. And what a nice trip it was. I enjoyed seeing the scenes where the family sat down to a casual dinner, and Cami feeds her niece by marriage. It was very nice to read about.
Although In The Sheikh's Arms didn't break any ground as a sheikh romance, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and I would definitely recommend it as a fan of the genre, and I am adding it to my keeper shelf.
June 16, 2021
I'll give this 3.5 ⭐️⭐️for being different from most sheikh stories due to the TX angle. I didn't like having the H's POV. It waters down the angst when you know what H is thinking IMHO. If she was so intelligent as the H kept pointing out I sure didn't see it! She eloped with practically a stranger and is only a sophomore in college. They never talked about anything that would lead me to see her intellect. They had too much internal dialogue for my taste.
September 16, 2012
I really don't know what to say beyond "Wow". Like many of the books I've begun picking up, I was worried this one wouldn't catch my interest at first-- I'm just learning these romance novels have a way of proving otherwise, though. I am very, very grateful Mrs Swift wrote this book, and the characters inside. It was a very heartwarming book, and I'm glad to see how it ended, and the troubles they worked through.
I wish a man like that really existed.
I wish a man like that really existed.
November 26, 2015
Wow i was blown away by this book...i really didn't think it was going to be as good...but as soon as i got about half way it started to get good...great work Sue!
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