“On the Street of the Jewelers, the pearl merchant, Abdul ibn-Mesih, close his shop in anticipation of the singsong chant of the muezzin calling the faithful to prayer.”
Barbary Coast, 1796. Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Chantelle Burke, 19, was led into the Pasha's scented chambers swearing she'd never surrender to this ruthless master. But she was stunned by the magnificently handsome man who awaited her amid the silk and splendor. His piercing emerald eyes held her in their power; his muscular embrace made her weak with desire even as she defied him. She was his to do with as he would. Yet this 30 old mysterious stranger-- whose eastern garb concealed his true identity -- touched her only with tenderness, driving her wild with new sensation, his scorching kisses igniting the fires of her very soul... and sweeping her beyond the harem walls into a palace of love's eternal dream.
