Welcome to For Whom The Books Toll! Today I'm hosting Victoria Vane's Virtual Blog Tour for her new book, The Sheik Retold. How about that awesome cover, isn't it yummy? Victoria will be awarding one copy of A Wild Night's Bride and one copy of A Breach of Promise to randomly drawn commenters at each stop.
Blurb:
Pride
and passion vie for supremacy in this steamy retelling of E.M. Hull's
romance classic.
A
haughty young heiress for whom the world is a playground…
A
savage son of the Sahara who knows no law but his own…
When
pride and passion vie for supremacy...
Blistering
desert days are nothing compared to sizzling Sahara
nights…
"There will be inquiries." I choked out. "I am not such a nonentity that nothing will be done when I am missed. You will pay for what you have done."
"There will be inquiries." I choked out. "I am not such a nonentity that nothing will be done when I am missed. You will pay for what you have done."
"Pay?" His amused look sent a cold feeling of dread through me. "I have already paid… in gold that matches your hair, my gazelle. Besides," he continued, "the French Government has no jurisdiction over me. There is no authority here above my own."
My trepidation was growing every passing minute. "Why have you done this? Why brought me here?"
"Why?" He repeated with a slow and heated appraisal that made me acutely, almost painfully, conscious of my sex. "Bon Dieu! Are you not woman enough to know?"
Excerpt:
He chuckled lowly, a smug and
self-satisfied sound. "Say it now, ma chère," he
softly demanded. "Tell me you want this above all things. Tell
me you want me."
I did. Desperately, but it was only the
fleeting lust of the flesh that I craved—not him. Never
him. "You have forced this upon me," I hissed in
a rage of frustration. "This means nothing—proves nothing."
"As you will….I can be a patient
man— when I choose to be."
His weight shifted away from me, and
then it was gone from the bed. He removed the blindfold and then gave
a single tug on the silk cord binding me to the bed. My arms
instantly released from above my head, and then just as suddenly, he
freed my legs.
I instantly scrambled to my knees,
dragging the silken coverings up around me as if their thin shelter
were a protection. "Are you finished with me now?" I asked
breathlessly.
"Finished?" His expression
was mixed mockery and mirth. "Par bleu! I have hardly
even begun, but for now, I shall leave you in peace." He strode
to the curtained doorway only to turn back to me with a sardonic bow.
"Bonne nuit et
doux rêves, ma chérie."
He had left me
alone. Alone in a state of dazed bewilderment and intense
sexual frustration—for I knew damned well what I was feeling— and
it made me want to screech and claw and rail.
The man was a mystery, an unfathomable
enigma. My mind could not reconcile his barbaric ways with the
evidence of his education and refinement. I had noticed a dozen
incongruities in him—his cultured speech, the well-worn books in
the tent, the elegant and fastidious order of his appointments. His
cruel words and contradictory tender touch crowded my recollection
until my head reeled, yet I was too tired to puzzle it out, too spent
in mind and body.
I did not know what would come on the
morrow but gave in to my exhaustion and sank into a cocoon of
covers. In the course of a single day, my entire being had
irrevocably changed. At long last, and with the greatest possible
resistance, I was learning obedience and humility—at the hands of
this incomprehensible savage.
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Author Bio:
Victoria Vane is an
award-winning romance novelist, cowboy addict and history junkie
whose collective works of fiction range from wildly comedic romps to
emotionally compelling erotic romance. Victoria also writes
historical fiction as Emery Lee and is the founder of Goodreads
Romantic Historical Fiction Lovers and the Romantic Historical Lovers
book review blog.
Look for
Victoria's Contemporary Cowboy Series coming summer 2014 from
Sourcebooks
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