The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride (Harlequin Romance) [Kindle Edition]

Liz Fielding (Author)

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Product Description

Zahir was surprised to find he had a beautiful new driver. This chauffeur did not blend into the background. Oh, no. Diana Metcalfe talked. She laughed. She took him on unplanned detours. And he had more fun than he'd had in years.

But back in his desert kingdom, a dynastic marriage was being brokered for Zahir. Crazy though it seemed, he wished that this wonderful, vivacious, thoroughly unsuitable woman could be his bride instead....

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 287 KB
• Print Length: 192 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin Romance (January 12, 2007)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0012094K4
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,278 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #35 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Fiction > Genre Fiction > Romance > Series > Harlequin Romance

More About the Author

Reading is, and always has been, the first love of my life. Except writing.
Success came early -- I was twelve when I won an Easter egg in a hymn writing competition at school - but life intervened with my plans to become a hot shot author. The day job. Not that this was dull. I travelled to Zambia at the age of twenty where I worked as a secretary, before following my personal hero to the Middle East, Kenya, Botswana and ambition became buried in the joyful business of raising a family.

I never forgot that I was a "writer", however. I wrote children's stories for Listen With Mother. Magazines articles. Ghost stories. I was at a point where I wanted to move onto something bigger when I read a magazine piece about Charlotte Lamb and Anne Hampson and discovered, rather late in life, romantic fiction. I read everything I could lay my hands on, then, feeling certain I had a grasp of the genre, began writing. I had three rejections - I still have those letters! -- but my fourth submission became An Image of You and was published in 1992.

Since then seven of my books have been shortlisted for RWA's RITA award - two of them, THE BEST MAN & THE BRIDESMAID and THE MARRIAGE MIRACLE winning in 2001 and 2006, respectively. A FAMILY OF HIS OWN always won the RNA's Romance Prize in 2005.

My best-beloved and I are empty-nesters these days, living out in the country where excitement means a visit from the mobile shop, the travelling library, the fish man. But I'm a writer, I invent my own worlds. Once the door to the my cabin in the woods is closed I can be anywhere my imagination takes me; the desert kingdom of Ramal Hamrah, the villages of Upper Haughton, Little Hinton and Longbourne where romance is always just around the corner, or I can jet off to New York, the Mediterranean, even the Himalayas. Come and see where I'm headed next - http://www.lizfielding.com

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pink taxis and snowglobe magic: a short romance with humor, fun and emotional depth, December 28, 2007

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This review is from: The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride (Harlequin Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Liz Fielding's THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE is a short tender romance filled with humor and emotion that sets romance within the context of family and social obligations and expectations. This romance is part of a multi-author series entitled Desert Brides.

Single mother Diane Metcalfe works as a chauffeur at Capitol Cars assigned to the school and airport runs --- the no-frills low end of the business. When Jack Lumley, the company's number one driver catches a stomach bug along with two other drivers, her boss Sadie scrambles, assigning Diane to VIP duty in the most luxurious saloon car in he garage. Whereas the school runs required a strong voice and control of school children and their antics, Diane's new assignment requires a full dress uniform and the discipline to remain politely invisible. With the opportunity to drive the limousines for bigger money, will Diane be able to succeed at the task or will her mouth and exuberance for life get her into big trouble? The rich and handsome Sheikh Zahir al-Khatib, the nephew of the Emir of Ramal Hamrah has come to London for a business trip and a mission to help his country by creating a fashionable tourist industry, breaking new ground that will revitalize the area without causing harm to the beauty and ecology. Zahir feels torn between his respect for the family traditions and ways at the same time as his independent spirit sees a new vision in the business world. Will his independence and vision spill over into his love life? Can business, love and family be separated?

As soon as Diane encounters Sheikh Zahir at the airport, all her intentions to remain professionally invisible are shattered. A bumping accident causes a priceless package to fly in the air beyond Diane's grasp. An antique Venetian glass snowglobe crashes to the ground. When Diane breaks her professional veneer to question the appropriateness of glass as a gift for a 10 year old girl, the trouble just begins....and gets much worse! Will this slip outside professional protocol open the door for romance or will Diane and Zahir cling to their family traditions and comfort zone when the sparks of romance move their hearts?

As the 50th book in Liz Fielding's career, THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE has all the elements that fans have come to know and love in a Liz Fielding romance, namely zany situations opening hearts, a delightful sense of humor, and an emotional depth to her characters and their romance. The exotic yet traditional background of the hero coupled with the everyday wisdom and spunk of the heroine adds to the humor while the theme of demands of family and duty as a hindrance to romance touches the heart with a universal romance conflict that will touch a wide breadth of readers. THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE also creates a fun moving tribute to popular culture and world events like Lady Diana, romance and fairy tales with its use of names and situations but Liz Fielding shifts the familiar paradigms to create a romance that moves beyond such references into a story both modern and emotionally rich. As her 50th book, THE SHEIKH'S UNSUITABLE BRIDE shows the maturity of writing of a great romance writer whose smooth narrative structure moves effortlessly between moments of humor to those of intimate emotional depth.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Woman Who Catchs the Eyes of a Sheikh, November 24, 2008

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Kimala (Alhambra, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride (Harlequin Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

Loved this book such a great read. Did not want to put it down either. Could not stop laughing at some parts of the book. These two people were meant to be together they both needed one another.

0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars totally agree with lost in translation's review., May 30, 2011

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This review is from: The Sheikh's Unsuitable Bride (Harlequin Romance) (Kindle Edition)

one of the worst books ive read in a long time. too much thinking not enough talking. the language is a little too english. stopped reading halfway through. could not take it. typing this review on my kindle so please excuse the lack of capital letters. just wanted to put this review out as soon as possibe. dont be seduced by the star rating for this book.