What had brought Desiree Drummond to his desert land? Sheikh Salah Al Khouri knew the celebrated beauty must have an ulterior motive... hadn't she always? He'd let her slip from his grasp once, but he wouldn't make the same mistake again. Before the week was out, she would be in his bed. Desperation had driven Desi back into Salah's life. And though the man who looked at her with such cold eyes was so different from the one she remembered, her goal remained. She had to stop Salah's long-awaited arranged royal marriage... any way she could.