From The Penny Jordan Collection, the lives of two sheikhs are changed foreverâ¦when they each meet the woman of their dreams
One Night with the Sheikh
The searing attraction between Sheikh Xavier Al Agir and Mariella Sutton is instant and all consuming. When a storm leaves Mariella stranded at Xavierâs desert home, desire soon takes over, leading to a night neither will soon forgetâfor more reasons than they can imagine!
The Sheikhâs Blackmailed Mistress
Life has taught Prince Vereham al aâKarim bin Hakar to control his emotions. But an unexpected encounter with the enchanting Samantha McLellan shakes Vere's steely reserve. Though love is not an option for the sheikh, he knows that somehow he must have Sam.
Praise for New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan
âWomen everywhere will find pieces of themselves in Jordanâs characters.â
âPublishers Weekly
âOne Night with the Sheikh is a deliciously wonderful tale with blazing sexual chemistry, a warm and engaging romance and two larger-than-life characters.â
âRT Book Reviews
âJordanâs record is phenomenal.â
âThe Bookseller
âThe Christmas Bride by Penny Jordan is a well-told love storyâ¦The beautiful settings and sensual love scenes add charm and zest to this holiday romance.â
âRT Book Reviews
â[Penny Jordanâs novels] touch every emotion.â
âRT Book Reviews
âYOU WONâT FORGET your mummy whilst Iâm away working, will you, my precious baby girl?â
Mariella watched sympathetically as her younger half-sister Tanyaâs eyes filled with tears as she handed her precious four-month-old daughter over to her.
âI know that Fleur couldnât have anyone better to look after her than you, Ella,â Tanya acknowledged emotionally. âAfter all, you became my mother as well as my sister when Mum and Dad died. I just wish I could have got a job that didnât mean I have to be away, but this six-week contract on this cruise liner pays so well that I just canât afford to give it up! Yes, I know you would support us both,â she continued before Mariella could say anything, âbut that isnât what I want. I want to be as independent as I can be. Anyway,â she told Mariella bitterly, âsupporting Fleur financially should be her fatherâs job and not yours! What I ever saw in that weak, lying rat of a man, Iâll never know! My wonderful sexy dream fantasy of a sheikh! Some dream he turned out to beâmore of a nightmare.â
Mariella let her vent her feelings, without comment, knowing just how devastated and hurt her half-sister had been when her lover had abandoned her.
âYou donât have to do this, Tanya,â she told her gently now. âIâm earning enough to support us all, and this house is big enough for the three of us.â
âOh, Mariella, I know that. I know youâd starve yourself to give to me and Fleur, but that isnât what I want. Youâve done so much for me since Mum and Dad died. You were only eighteen, after all, three years younger than I am now, when we found out that there wasnât going to be any money! I suppose Dad wanted to give us all so much that he simply didnât think about what would happen if anything happened to him, and with him remortgaging the house because of the stock market crisis.â
Silently the sisters looked at one another.
Both of them had inherited their motherâs delicate bone structure and heart-shaped face, along with her strawberry-blonde hair and peach perfect complexion, but where Tanya had inherited her fatherâs height and hazel eyes, Mariella had inherited intensely turquoise eyes from her father, the man who had decided less than a year after her birth that the responsibilities of fatherhood and marriage simply werenât for him and walked out on his wife and baby daughter.
âItâs not fair,â Tanya had mock complained to her when she had announced that she was not going to go to university as Mariella had hoped she would, but wanted to pursue a career singing and dancing. âIf I had your eyes, Iâd have a ready-made advantage over everyone else whenever I went for a part.â
Although she knew how headstrong and impulsive her half-sister could be, Mariella admired her for what she was doing, even whilst she worried about how she was going to cope with being away from her daughter for six long weeks.
Whatever small differences there might ever have been between them, in their passionate and protective love for baby Fleur they were totally united.
âIâll ring every day,â Tanya promised chokily.
âAnd I want to know everything she does, Ellaâ¦Every tiny little thing. Oh, Ellaâ¦I feel so guilty about all of thisâ¦I know how you suffered as a little girl because your father wasnât there; because heâd abandoned you and Mumâ¦and I know too how lucky I was to have both Mum and Dad and you there for me, and yet here is my poor little Fleurâ¦â