Amor en el desierto Petra había viajado hasta el reino de Zuran para conocer a su abuelo... y allí descubrió que él había concertado su matrimonio con el rico jeque Rashid, al que ella jamás había visto. Así que ideó un plan que consistía en arruinar su propia reputación con el fin de que el jeque la rechazara como esposa... y para ello le pidió a Blaize, el guapísimo empleado del hotel en donde se hospedaba, que se hiciera pasar por su amante. Blaize era perfecto para interpretar el papel... pero también demostró ser un excelente amante de verdad. Fue entonces cuando Petra descubrió algo increíble: el hombre al que acababa de entregarle gustosa su virginidad no era otro que ése con el que tenía que casarse... ¡el mismísimo jeque Rashid! Una noche con el jeque La atracción entre el jeque Xavier Al Agir y Mariella Sutton surgió de manera instantánea y arrolladora. Pero para Mariella aquel hombre era terreno peligroso. Xavier no tenía la menor intención de dejar de ser soltero... pero cuando aquella tormenta los dejó a solas en el desierto, la pasión se apoderó de ellos y compartieron una noche que jamás podrían olvidar. Y ella, que siempre había soñado con tener un hijo, ideó un plan para repetir aquella noche y quedarse embarazada de él...
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Penelope Jones Halsall aka Caroline Courtney, Annie Groves, Lydia Hitchcock, Melinda Wright Penelope "Penny" Jones was born on November 24, 1946 at about seven pounds in a nursing home in Preston, Lancashire, England. She was the first child of Anthony Winn Jones, an engineer, who died at 85, and his wife Margaret Louise Groves Jones. She has a brother, Anthony, and a sister, Prudence "Pru". She had been a keen reader from the childhood - her mother used to leave her in the children's section of their local library whilst she changed her father's library books. She was a storyteller long before she began to write romantic fiction. At the age of eight, she was creating serialized bedtime stories, featuring make-believe adventures, for her younger sister Prue, who was always the heroine. At eleven, she fell in love with Mills & Boon, and with their heroes. In those days the books could only be obtained via private lending libraries, and she quickly became a devoted fan; she was thrilled to bits when the books went on full sale in shops and she could have them for keeps. Penny left grammar school in Rochdale with O-Levels in English Language, English Literature and Geography. She first discovered Mills & Boon books, via a girl she worked with. She married Steve Halsall, an accountant and a "lovely man", who smoked and drank too heavily, and suffered oral cancer with bravery and dignity. Her husband bought her the small electric typewriter on which she typed her first novels, at a time when he could ill afford it. He died at the beginning of 21st century. She earned a living as a writer since the 1970s when, as a shorthand typist, she entered a competition run by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Although she didn't win, Penny found an agent who was looking for a new Georgette Heyer. She published four regency novels as Caroline Courtney, before changing her nom de plume to Melinda Wright for three air-hostess romps and then she wrote two thrillers as Lydia Hitchcock. Soon after that, Mills and Boon accepted her first novel for them, Falcon's Prey as Penny Jordan. However, for her more historical romance novels, she adopted her mother's maiden-name to become Annie Groves. Almost 70 of her 167 Mills and Boon novels have been sold worldwide. Penny Halsall lived in a neo-Georgian house in Nantwich, Cheshire, with her Alsatian Sheba and cat Posh. She worked from home, in her kitchen, surrounded by her pets, and welcomed interruptions from her friends and family.
