The Desert King’s Pregnant Bride, by Annie West

This lovely category romance is my introduction to Ms West’s writing. I confess that I have a soft spot for sheikhs as characters because E.M.Hull’s The Sheikh was in fact the first romance I ever read. (Yes, I know—rape, Stockholm syndrome, the whole ball of wax. I was eleven, for crying out loud; I thought the ending made up for the rest of the book.)

Erm… where was I? Ah yes. The Desert King’s Pregnant Bride is much better than the blurb would make you think: (more…)