Sheik Protector (Harlequin Intrigue) [Kindle Edition]

Dana Marton (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Selected as TOP PICK for September!!!! --All she wanted to do was tell her lover she was pregnant, but upon entering his desert kingdom, Julia Gardner meets his suspicious twin brother, Sheik Karim Abdulla, and is held against her will until her claims can be proven. At the same time, a fanatical radical sect has decreed death for Karim, and she's caught up in the escalating attacks that revolve around finding ancient statues. As they race for their lives across the desert, Julia and Karim feel passion flaring in Dana Marton's action-filled and riveting Sheik Protector. --Pat Cooper -- Romantic Times Magazine, September 2008

Product Description

Proud, imperious and leery of pretenders to the throne, Sheik Karim Abdullah saw Julia Gardner as just another gold digger. The American claimed to be carrying his dead twin's child, so the Dark Sheik decreed she remain his palace "guest" until paternity was established.

But the rebellious Julia proved as dangerous to Karim as the assassins stalking him. Her fi erce need to safeguard her baby turned the sheik into a protective lover. And the wounded warrior vowed to savor the moment...then walk away before he jeopardized her safety....

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Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 199 KB
• Print Length: 224 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin Intrigue (August 1, 2008)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B001EP8OA8
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #93,465 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

DANA MARTON writes fast-paced action-adventure romances that take her readers all over the globe. She is a RITA AWARD finalist and the winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award of Excellence. She loves writing stories of intrigue, filled with dangerous plots that try her tough-as-nails heroes and the special women they fall in love with. Her books have been published in seven languages in eleven countries around the world.

--Okay, the above version is the glamour version for press releases. The truth is that my path to publication was nothing but unglamorous. I wrote for 13 years and completed 4 books (as well as having others in various stages of completion) before I finally received a call from a Harlequin editor. I was beginning to wonder if I was being tenacious or just too dense to know when to quit.

But it all worked out at the end! I love, love, love writing and would spend all day in front of the computer if I could just break my family of the habit of wanting to eat and wear clean clothes. What's up with that? But I must get up from the desk now and then, if only because my Internet connection goes down or my ancient PC overheats. Then I do enjoy cooking, knitting, hunting for treasures at the flea market, our Beagle, Peanut the Destroyer, and gardening.

I'd love it if you picked up one of my books and emailed me to tell me what you thought of it. I've been known to name characters after readers. Just ask Princess Judi.

Please visit www.danamarton.com.

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark and romantic, April 3, 2009

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Marilyn Shoemaker (Seattle, Washington) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sheik Protector (Harlequin Intrigue) (Mass Market Paperback)

Sheikh Karim Adbullah is called the "Dark Sheikh" and it's no wonder, not just his physical appearance which include multiple scars, a facial scar on his eye which had made him blind and additional scars on body, mainly his back. His identical twin has been intentionally killed and now he finds that he's not only faced with finding his killer; plus a woman he met in he US claims his twin is the father of her unborn child.

Everything within days change; the pregnancy, his attraction to her, finding his brother's killer and now his enemies want the woman and Karim dead.

Their journey is full of action, turmoil, danger, sexual attraction and mystery. On top of everything else, coupled with the danger, their attraction leaps off of the pages of this book and just reading about the "dark sheikh" softening and falling for Julia is very sweet and romantic.

What I loved about this particular sheikh story was it was honour bound not just Karim the born sheikh but the lovely Julia who was abandoned at a young age, raised in foster care and who had a definite need to belong. In the end, her sense of honour shines in this very lovely romantic love story. Again Dana Marton "dazzles" her readers with her Sheik Protector.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They call him the Dark Sheik, September 4, 2008

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booknut - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sheik Protector (Harlequin Intrigue) (Mass Market Paperback)

His past is filled with loss and pain. His soul is filled with revenge. Sheik Karim Abdullah is NOT your average prince. As a child, he survived assassination attempts, which cost him the sight in one eye and left numerous scars on his body. As a grown man, he stays to himself and works for his tribe, managing their oil business. But the murder of Aziz, his twin brother, brings Karim out of the office and pits him against gathering enemies.

Into the middle of this dangerous hunt, and with attacks on Karim's life intesifying, comes waltzing Julia Gardner, claiming to be pregnant with Aziz's baby. Karim knows one thing: he will not let her stain Aziz's honor. But as it turns out, he way underestimates the beauty he plans on keeping locked up in his palace until he can prove paternity.

Soon, they are fleeing for their lives across the desert, in danger not only from their enemies but the anger of disturbed ancient spirits. At the beginning, all Karim wanted was to prove Julia a liar and a gold digger. But as passions flair, now all he wants is to love and protect her.

A fantastic adventure/love story.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another great book from a great Author, September 4, 2008

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Katie - See all my reviews

This review is from: Sheik Protector (Harlequin Intrigue) (Mass Market Paperback)

What makes this book great is the gift Ms Marton has of making you connect with the characters and feeling involed with the story making this the must read!

It was not uncommen for women to come to Beharrain after one of his brother's trips overseas to try and trap him he thinks no diffrent to Julia but it is his duty to protected her while he finds the truth and who killed his brother and is trying to kill them but Julia has other ideas!

Julia came to Beharrain after an out of character fling left her pregnant only to find out that Aziz is dead and thanks to his twin brother Sheik Kaherim she can not leave the country! She will stop at nothing to get out and fast!