Desire in the Desert
Barbara Cartland
Beschreibung
Dashing Druce Pevel, the Marquis of Peverell, Lord of all he surveys, with women falling at his feet...A pair of money-grabbing, murderous cousins bent on bleeding him dry or even dead Shamara, an innocent, yet strangely exotic, Missionary s daughter, plucked from an orphanage to become the Marquis s ward A bewildered Shamara finds herself voyaging aboard his yacht to Senegal where it s the Marquis s turn to be bewildered when they re kidnapped by a tribal chieftain and held for ransom in his kasbah At first he is mystified How is it that this innocent abroad knows the ways of the Africans even speaks their language. How has she such wisdom beyond her tender years? Then, as he watches over her sleeping in their kasbah prison, Druce is suddenly smitten and taken aback by the fierceness and passion with which he swears, I will kill anyone who hurts her!
