Captive Bride

The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton. Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave — desperate for the freedoms denied her...yet weakened by her heart's blazing desire to willingly explore her virile captor's most sensuous cravings. Formats : EPUB, ORIGINAL_EPUB

A master storyteller who spins romantic fiction like no other, Johanna Lindsey weaves together endearing characters, enthralling adventure and pulsating passion to create stories that touch the hearts of her readers.

Captive Bride

The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton.

Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave - desperate for the freedoms denied heryet weakened by her heart's blazing desire to willingly explore her virile captor's most sensuous cravings.

Kristin Ramsdell - Library Journal

A virile chieftain kidnaps a young Englishwoman and takes her to his desert enclave in this 1977 classic captive-in-love-with-captor romance that is one of the many derivatives of The Sheik. Several of Lindsey's classics (she is another of the original "Avon Ladies") are being reprinted.

Readers will be sad to note that Kathleen E. Woodiwiss, the writer who launched the "Hot Historical" craze with the publication of The Flame and the Flowerin 1972, passed away on July 6, 2007, in Princeton, MN. She was one of the six original "Avon Ladies," and her books are often mentioned by readers as the ones that started them reading romance. She was completing her latest novel, Everlasting(Morrow, Oct.), at the time of her death. Coincidentally, Avon will be reprinting a number of her earlier titles in upcoming months. NB: These are classic works from the 1970s and will read somewhat differently from the historicals currently being published.

She knew no master until a desert sheik claimed her heart ... On a night made for love, there is only terror for beautiful Christina Wakefield. She who has so recklessly followed her brother from London to Cairo on a whim is now made prisoner by an unknown abductor who carries her off to his hidden encampment. Soon she will share his bed, know his touch, growing ever closer to the man who owns her as a slave. And soon she will learn to want him as he wants her - to share his soul, his being - her body aching to be his alone in the trembling acstasy of everlasting rapture The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely 17 year old Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters 32 year old Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton. Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave -- desperate for the freedoms denied her...yet weakened by her heart's blazing desire to willingly explore her virile captor's most sensuous cravings. The irresistible call of adventure brings lovely Christina Wakefield to the alluring Arabian desert. But fate imprisons her after she encounters Sheik Abu, the strikingly handsome though arrogant adventurer, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton. Once Christina had rejected Philip's fervent offer of marriage. But now she is to be his slave -- desperate for the freedoms denied her ... yet weakened by her heart's blazing desire to willingly explore her virile captor's most sensuous cravings After traveling to the Arabian desert, Christina Wakefield discovers that she misses her freedoms as much as she desires belonging to Sheik Abu, whom she had known in England as Philip Caxton THE WEATHER WAS pleasantly warm on this early spring day in the year 1883.