Desert Rogues Part 1 By Susan Mallery

desert Rogues Part 1

Terrific story of three romances and three marriages of love 💘! All three had exciting problems ! They took their time figuring the solutions! 9781426803703 The Sheikh's Kidnapped Bride (5 stars)
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Prince Khalil Khan of El Bahar & Dora Nelson meet on a Kansas airstrip, where Khalil's private jet is refueling and Dora has been abandoned by a duplicitous fiance. Oh, and she's wearing an ill-fitting wedding dress, while her purse and other belongings on still on the long-gone plane. Khalil is in need of an executive assistant for his remaining 2 weeks in the USA, which just so happens to fit Dora's skill set. Good thing, since the jerk ex was her boss... /
Justifying to himself that he is comforting Dora and preventing a political and personal disaster in El Bahar, Khalil seduces and marries her. When Dora learns about these machinations, they remind her a bit too much of her recent engagement, leaving her hurt and angry. She wants nothing to do with a man who would manipulate her that way and looks for a way to escape him. To assure the amicable kind of marriage he imagined with her, Khalil's got a lot of work ahead of him. Then he realizes that he wants Dora's heart too. /
Shoot, even knowing what he was doing, I still found myself getting caught up in Khalil's seduction of Dora. This really helps me to sympathize with her and to maintain my faith in her intelligence. There are few things that annoy me more than a stupid heroine, and Dora is definitely not that. She is strong, and her stubbornness never grates on me. Dora makes the best of a difficult situation, working to help her new home country, with Khalil's enthusiastic support. She learns to respect herself more, and the rest of the royal household does too. The ultimate resolution is interesting and satisfying - the characters maintain consistency, even as they evolve.

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The Sheikh's Arranged Marriage (4 stars)
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Prince Jamal Khan of El Bahar has been content with his work and casual romances ever since the death of his wife Yasmin. Heidi McKinley, in the meantime, has blithely immersed herself in her studies, unaware that the King and Queen of El Bahar were grooming her to marry Jamal. Since they took her in after the death of her grandfather, she has been unable to deny them anything, but she has no interest in marriage. This reticence charms Jamal, who is used to being pursued by women interested in his title and money. /
Under pressure from the King and Queen, Jamal and Heidi wed. Heidi is not only a virgin, but inexperienced with men in general. The combination of her innocence and the rejection he experienced in his previous marriage lead to Jamal waiting to consummate their marriage. Heidi's unrealistic views about men and sex cause tension, and she struggles to remedy the situation and build a loving marriage with Jamal, with the help of the Queen and her sister-in-law. /
This was my third reading, and while I don't remember how I felt the first time, Heidi gets on my nerves a lot at the beginning. Good explanations are given, but I felt a little protective of Jamal when she unintentionally hurt him. The sob scene at the beginning of Chapter 7 really annoyed me. I don't want the characters to cry if I'm not crying too. Her reaction in Chapter 14 bothered me too, because it was so irrational, but the way Jamal fixes everything in the end makes it all worthwhile.

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The Sheikh's Secret Bride (5 stars)
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Prince Malik Khan spots single mother Liana Archer when she first arrives in El Bahar and is instantly drawn to her and her daughter Bethany. In the inimitable arrogance of a crown prince, he sweeps the two off to the royal palace so that he can keep them nearby. Liana has already endured a marriage with an incredibly self-centered man and is annoyed to find her plans for a new life thwarted by another man's selfish impulses. /
Even more frustrating is her reluctant attraction to Malik. He maintains a friendship with Bethany even after allowing the Archers to move out of the palace. Just as Liana begins to make peace with her growing attraction to Malik, they are married without her knowledge or consent. He now has 30 days to convince her to stay. Malik suspects that Liana is the only woman who can help him (and his eventual sons) be a man, not just a crown prince. /
The isolation of his upbringing and the humiliation of his first marriage have led Malik to believe that giving his love would be a sign of weakness, but he desperately craves Liana's love. She wants to soothe his loneliness, but needs to feel loved and respected as an equal. I understand those desires, but her reaction in the scene where she confesses her love (and he does not) is pretty ridiculous. 1) Loving someone is not about what they can do or feel for you, and 2) you can't expect an emotionally repressed and verbally cautious person to suddenly flip a switch and profess their love when you give them the first indication of committment. She spent a lot of time declaring that she was going to leave - he has reason to be guarded. But at least she didn't immediately run away, and for that I respect her. I also respect her for leaving when she did, and the ending was very satisfying, except for the random foreshadowing of the last paragraph. That was kind of weird.

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The Sheikh and the Runaway Princess (5 stars)
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Sabrina Johnson is technically Princess Sabra of Bahania, but her self-centered and wild mother brought her along when she moved back to the United States and her father, King Hassan, disregards her both for being female and because he assumes she is like her mother. Instead she is an academic with more interest in archeology and history than shopping and parties, or worse, the arranged marriage that her father has planned. When she gets caught in a desert sandstorm while looking for the mythical City of Thieves, she is found and captured by Kardal, who is not only the Prince of Thieves but her betrothed. /
While she does not recognize him as the troll prince - her nickname for the fiance she has never met - he recognizes her immediately but does not confess his title or their impending nuptials. Pretending to hold her as a slave and intending to mold her into a more suitable bride, Kardal gets to know Sabrina beyond the rumors and assumptions. Unfortunately that doesn't prevent him from stealing her innocence, and even the Prince of Thieves is not above punishment for dishonoring a princess that way. /
Both have abandonment issues (Kardal has never been acknowledged by his father, King Givon of El Bahar). Sabrina's phone call to her father killed me - the first tears I've shed so far in this series. Kardal and Sabrina were both sympathetic and admirable, although flawed. The princess definitely comes across as borderline perfect, other than her temper, but she's likeable to get away with it. I loved the resolution and that there is some sort of reconciliation for all of the characters, although it's going to be a long process for Sabrina and Hassan.

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The Sheikh and the Virgin Princess (4 stars)
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Rafe Stryker is a sheikh by virtue of an honor he received when saving the life of the Prince of Thieves, but up to this point he has been a loner drifting from job to job as a security expert. Zara Paxton grew up in the United States thinking she was average, despite her unusual upbringing. However, while sorting through her deceased mother's belongings, she discovers that her father may be King Hassan of Bahania. With her foster sister Cleo in tow, she visits Bahana to decide whether she should reach out to the King. She meets Rafe during a mix-up at the palace and he decides to investigate her claim and potential threat to the royal family. /
It turns out that Zara's mother was the one true love of the promiscuous king and he is eager to get to know his long-lost daughter. Zara and Cleo are immediately moved into the royal palace and Rafe is assigned as the new princess' bodyguard, even though he officially works for the City of Thieves and is only in Bahania to work on developing a joint air force between their two governments and El Bahar. /
Though frustrated with the king's decree, Rafe is even more bothered by his attraction to Zara. The attraction is mutual, but Zara also comes to depend on him as the only person who understands her discomfort in this new world. Rafe knows that messing around with the king's new favorite child would be a disaster, so he tries to resist both Zara's desire and his own. Not only could he literally lose his head, but he knows that Zara wants and deserves the kind of committment he doesn't think he can offer. /
While Zara's reaction is completely understandable, being overwhelmed constantly doesn't leave her much time to be interesting. Despite this, I still find myself liking her. Rafe is a great hero: strong, kind, intelligent, and sensitive. This story felt kind of strange, almost as if it was just a layover between other installments in the series. There's definitely set-up for the next book. 9781426803703 Book 1 - The Sheikh's Kidnapped Bride. Read before. Re-read 13th to 14th May 2014 - 5 stars.
Re-read The Sheik's Kidnapped Bride again. 25th to 26th April 2015. One of the most memorable beginnings of any Mills and Boon. I love the story and the characters. Still 5 stars.

Book 2 - The Sheikh's Arranged Marriage. Read before. Re-read 27th April 2015.
Starts off well. I really like Heidi and Jamal but am not a huge fan of the plot...attempting to become your husband's mistress (in diguise). 4 stars.

Book 3 - The Sheikh's Secret Bride. Read before. Re-read 29th April 2015.
I don't usually like children as staring characters in romance novels but I really enjoyed this story. 5 stars

Book 4 - The Sheik and the Runaway Princess. Never read before. Read 16th to 17th November.
This was okay. It was a little bit too fantastical to me. 3 stars

Book 5 - The Sheik and the Virgin Princess. Never read before. Read 17th to 18th November.
I liked the plot idea. And the cats. But the romance was a little rushed. 3 stars.

All in all a very enjoyable set of reads. 9781426803703 Reading until 1am helps you finish a book.

Very well done. LOVED all the books. Ready for Part 2! 9781426803703 Ahhhh....cant stop smiling.

LOVED all 5 of the books included. Susan Mallery never disappoints me. Can't wait to read the rest of the Desert Rogues series. 9781426803703

Susan Mallery's Desert RoguesWatch how passions flare under the hot sun for these rogue sheiks! Part 1 includes The Sheik's Kidnapped Bride, The Sheik's Arranged Marriage, The Sheik's Secret Bride, The Sheik and the Runaway Princess, and The Sheik and the Virgin Princess, Desert Rogues Part 1

Love the bundle....managed to read the books in one day. 9781426803703

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