2.0 out of 5 stars
COULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH BETTER, 20 Jan 2012
By L. Sims "Linda" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Strangers in the Desert (Modern) (Kindle Edition)
I have enjoyed books by this author in the past, this one was okay but could have been so much better. The plot had everything going for it, but was let down by things that were too hard to believe even for a Mills and Boon book! Adan had married Isabella, he was then a prince of his country, not long after they were married she fell pregnant, after the birth of the baby she disappeared into the desert, and in the intervening time had been presumed dead. Now present day she has been found and Adan goes to see for himself that it is really her, as she has no memory of their marriage or the fact that she has a son it is a big shock. Adan had until Isabella was found been planning his coronation as king and marriage to another woman in fact she was his fiancee. This story had plenty going for it many things though bothered me, I think more than anything else was the fact that Isabella was told by Adan that he was getting married, it bothered me that Isabella never questioned Adan about his fiancee,after all as his wife would she not have wanted to know about what would happen now with a wife and fiancee. Isabella had no idea whether Adan's relationship with his fiancee was intimate, and it was unbelievable that she did not ask especially as she and Adan were having sex and the fiancee was still in the frame! What could have been a very good story at times was irritating.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Strangers in the Desert, 11 Nov 2011
By Nas Dean - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Strangers in the Desert (Mills & Boon Hardback Romance) (Hardcover)
Strangers in the Desert. Lynn Raye Harris (Romance Hb)
Strangers in the Desert (Harlequin Presents)
STRANGERS IN THE DESERT by Lynn Raye Harris is a Mills & Boon Modern and a Harlequin Presents release.
Desert King Sheikh Adan was preparing for his upcoming nuptials when he gets information that his wife may be alive. Cancelling all his appointments he flies to a small Island and finds her singing in a bar!
He is outraged. And brings her back with him to his desert kingdom. Why did Isabella Maro leave her husband and a two year old son to go and sing in a bar?
When Isabella meets her two year old son, she knows for certain that she'll never be able to leave him and go again. Yet Adan wants to divorce Isabella so that he can proceed with his marriage preparations. Now that Isabella and his precious son had bonded, can he split them apart? What about the electrifying attraction between Adan and Isabella? When he had married her, she was an innocent and simple girl with nothing remarkable about her. Yet, now she was a sultry, seductive woman who makes Adan's pulse rage just by looking at her!
STRANGERS IN THE DESERT is a romance packed with sizzle and sexual tension. This breath-taking story deals with the effect of post-natal depression on unrequited love resulting in amnesia. Add in a hot desert Sheikh and readers won't be able to help themselves from flipping the pages late into the night. It is an exciting premise altogether and the story keeps you involved from the first page. I had to restrain myself from turning to the last pages to know the `why' and `how' Isabella had left!
Lynne Raye Harris sure knows how to keep readers engaged from the first chapter by her story-telling. She showed warmth and sensitivity while touching on the subject of post-natal depression. Along with a woman building back her loss of self-confidence after being brought up to be subservient is heart-touchingly written.