From internationally bestselling author Lucy Monroe comes a searing desert romance where a duty-bound prince claims a wounded American heiress for the sake of his kingdom.
She thought he chose her. She was wrong.\
JULIANA
My parents have been trying to “fix” me my whole life—my face, my body, my future. I finally have a life that fits me: the children’s library, rescue horses, and quiet weekends rockhounding.
Then Gabriel shows up. Gorgeous. Powerful. An honest-to-goodness desert prince who looks at me like he sees a woman worth wanting. His voice transforms my old nickname “little jewel” into something I ache to believe. With him, my body wakes up. My heart stops hiding. For the first time, I start to imagine being wanted exactly as I am.
But the perfect dates, the sensual passion, and the way we fit isn’t fate. It’s the strategy of a remorseless conqueror.
GABRIEL
I did not come to Santa Fe for a wife. I came for Caldwell’s mining technology to secure my country’s future. When marriage is demanded, I approach it like any other negotiation.
With ruthless determination to win.
When Juliana learns the truth, she wants out. But my little jewel does not understand the kind of man she gave herself to.
She is mine. And I will do whatever it takes to keep what belongs to me, including seduction and blackmail while holding her hostage in my desert palace until she sees sense.
A possessive desert prince. A heroine who longs to be loved for who she truly is. A marriage that begins as obligation and becomes something far more dangerous.
Welcome to the Brides of the Al Qadir Dynasty.