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Desert Dreams [MultiFormat]
eBook by Gracie C. McKeever
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eBook Category: Fantasy/Romance
eBook Description: A centuries old djinni betrayed ... A modern career woman and wife bereft ... Can this thoroughly mismatched couple find comfort and vindication in each other's arms? More importantly, can their love survive the ancient vendetta of one unforgiving and powerful demon djinni? Find out that anything is possible when a devout mystical being from the old world joins forces with an urban-reared spitfire from the new. Kane is a decided study in contrasts in any place and time, but being set free in a world where a woman's place is not necessarily in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant, throws this thoroughly quaint and devout Muslim for a loop. Longing motherhood and pursuing a burgeoning curatorship at a niche art museum in Brooklyn after suffering a miscarriage three years previously, Therese Hunter is an ambitious thirty-something wife at an emotional crossroad. Not usually one to wallow in self-pity, the loss of their child left a huge rift between Therese and her husband, Jury, that has yet to be repaired. Enter a special anniversary and a gift that proves to be, not only the vehicle that releases Kane from his captivity and the key to opening a brand new destiny for Therese, but ultimately the instrument that will end Jury's life.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: 2001
Fictionwise Release Date: April 2005
Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [1.6 MB], eReader (PDB) [272 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [276 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [249 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [240 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [290 KB], hiebook (KML) [714 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [299 KB], iSilo (PDB) [230 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [285 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [313 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [365 KB]
Words: 82073
Reading time: 234-328 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
 
"A keeper!--Very highly recommended!"--Cindy Penn, WordWeaving
"Pull up a chair and get to know Therese and her family. McKeever makes you feel like you're one of the gang. Desert Dreams is a wonderful mix of romance, paranormal, and suspense that will have you clamoring for more of McKeever's unique stories. Don't miss it!"--Tina Wainscott, Golden Heart Award-Winner, Author of Unforgivable "Many twists and turns in this story! Nothing was as it seemed! Therese and her relatives used many slang words that often confused me as much as they confused Kane. So parts of the story were rough for me. Eventually the surrounding situations or the emotions the heroine used got the point across to me though. A very good story and well worth your time to look into!"--Detra Fitch, Huntress
PROLOGUE Bedouin Encampment Arabian Peninsula, Rub al-Khali--18th Century"Allah has forsaken you, Kane." He heard the husky declaration as if from a great distance, glared at the sensual orifice from which his death sentence had just been emitted, saw her executioner's grin. Beautiful red lips curved into a wicked smile. How could such lips--full, moist and capable of giving him so many of his first and only carnal pleasures--deliver such a lethal sentence? His death sentence, or very near, unless she decided to change her mind and spare him. Sahir shook her exquisitely-shaped head, jet-black curls dancing around her face. She arched her lush eyebrows as if she knew what thoughts he harbored. "You are aware of your error, djinni?" Slowly, he nodded, loath to admit defeat as he had never done so. But yes, he was aware. More than aware that she could never be trusted. I will not beg. "Perhaps had you been able to do thus..." Again, she had read his thoughts. She was more than wicked. She was a liar and a charlatan. And she had trapped him. "You realize your mistake too late, Kane." She uttered the words with such smooth elegance, his name rolling from her lips with traitorous familiarity, that it was easy for him to believe he had been moved by the sound so many times in the past, warmed to distraction by its promise. By Allah, he would die before entrusting his title again! Kane felt the storm raging outside, desert wind blowing and piling loose sand. But it was nothing to match the tempest raging through his veins, pooling in his chest and bringing the most precious pain. He took a deep breath, held on tight to the ache, reveled in it, storing it for future reference. He wanted to remember this moment, his last few breaths of freedom. "It is my wish that you will serve your next mawla as well as you have served me." Sand pelted fala'if, drowning her sentiments and reminding Kane of the desert's random fury. He welcomed the intrusion, swallowing hints of the cool night air seeping in through the opened ruag. "This is how you repay me," he murmured. "I granted you everything you asked." "Yes." Sahir nodded and pierced him with a strange and grievous look that said he had insulted her. "And I you. It is an even trade."
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