King of the desert, father of her child... With butterflies fluttering in her stomach, Lucy Banks has arrived in the desert kingdom of Biryal – with a secret! Seeing Sheikh Khaled – the man who once loved and left her – at home in his sumptuous royal palace, Lucy is blown away by his barbaric magnificence: he's king of the desert, his eyes are blacker and harder than before, and he's no longer the man she once knew. She wants to run away from his overwhelming masculinity. But they're inextricably bound for ever...for he is the father of her son...