The Sheikh's Reluctant Bride

Brothers of Bha'Khar #1

by Teresa Southwick

Jessica Sterling has just discovered a life-changing
secret. In the desert kingdom of Bha'Khar is the family
she never knew she had! Little does she realize that
includes the man she's been betrothed to since birth….

Sheikh Kardahl Hourani is rich, gorgeous and just
a tiny bit arrogant. He's happy to marry, but this brooding
prince doesn't have love on his agenda. Can Jessica see
the man behind the playboy persona and find her way into
his guarded heart?

Genres: Romance, Harlequin, Fiction, Harlequin Romance, Ebooks

192 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 10, 2009

About the author

A four time National Readers Choice award finalist, Teresa Southwick is the author of more than 65 romance novels. She's also been a finalist for Romance Writers of America's prestigious Rita Award and a winner of Romantic Times Book Reviews Magazine's Reviewer's Choice award for best Silhouette Romance.

Teresa grew up in Southern California, one of six children--four of them boys. That gave her a lot of experience with the male point of view and has served her well in her writing career. Living in Las Vegas which she considers just a little east of her childhood stomping grounds, she loves to hear from readers and can be contacted at www.teresasouthwick.com.

Reviews

[Desi · Rating 2 out of 5]

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[Susan in Perthshire · Rating 2 out of 5]

Oh dear! I am a little stumped with this one. The author can write - the prose flowed, there was some great dialogue and great humour in the book. The basic premise was outlandish and improbable - ‘girl is really daughter of friends of the royal family and is betrothed to the spare heir’. I could live with that but the heroine Jessica was a total pain in the backside. Talk about playing the victim card - everything was about her. Poor thing having a mother like her. Poor thing being brought up poor, in the foster system etc etc. And the how wonderful she must be in comparison with Kardahl who she judges from the celebrity magazone coverage. What was totally unreal was how from the moment she met him, she told him ehat a waste of space. Common manners would have dictated she treated him politely so I simply found her behaviour rude, aggressive and inexplicable. She continued like that until he told her about Antonia. I disliked her intensely. Why on earth Kardahl would fall in love with her was a mystery.

This must be the firdt romance where the couple don’t have mind blowing sex at least once. Having found her one and only experience disappointing, Jessica doesn’t get a second shot to show her sex can be fabulous. That was such a misstep! Disappointing

[Becky Black · Rating 2 out of 5]

Okay. Readable, but nothing all that special.