Engaged To The Doctor Sheikh

Engaged To The Doctor Sheikh
Meredith Webber

Exile or marriage, the choice is hers…Sheikh Tariq al Askeba knows Lila Halliday is trouble… From the moment the Australian paediatric doctor arrives wearing an ancient amulet stolen from his family years before, scandal precedes her.Lila is stunned to discover the sordid history of her birth mother’s pendant. She came to Karuba to discover her true heritage, not set the whole palace in uproar!Knowing there’s no other way to quell the upheaval Tariq gives her a shocking ultimatum: leave…or become his desert bride!

Exile or marriage, the choice is hers...

Sheikh Tariq al Askeba knows Lila Halliday is trouble... From the moment the Australian pediatric doctor arrives wearing an ancient amulet stolen from his family years before, scandal precedes her.

Lila is stunned to discover the sordid history of her birth mother’s pendant. She came to Karuba to discover her true heritage, not set the whole palace in uproar! Knowing there’s no other way to quell the upheaval, Tariq gives her a shocking ultimatum: leave...or become his desert bride!

‘Marry you? Am I supposed to leap about in excitement at that thought? Or am I supposed to feel honoured? To be married to such an important man as Sheikh al Askeba!’

Lila thought she was doing quite well—given the total shock Tariq’s words had generated. But yelling at him wasn’t enough…not when she felt like grinding her teeth or punching something.

But marry Tariq—who’d been forced to offer marriage? Not love, just marriage...

Her heart scrunched in her chest. But that was stupid—this was a land where the head ruled the heart and his head had offered marriage.

But what alternative did she have?

Leave this place which she’d just discovered for certain was her heritage? Leave the family she’d only just found? The family she’d sought for so many years?

But the alternative was exile!

Could she really just walk away?

Dear Reader (#u9a1fc234-ad9c-5a35-a103-e936184e1400),

These days so many people seem to be tracing their ancestry, but for Lila the search to find out about her parents is more a search for her own identity. Orphaned at four, in a foreign country, she’s had little to guide her in her search: some scraps of music, memories of a box her mother treasured…and the pendant her mother had tied around her neck the day of her accident.

The last thing she expects to find as she follows her tenuous leads is love, but that is the ultimate reward for her tenacity in following the clues to her parents’ lives. As you will realise my love affair with sandy desert countries is still strong, and I hope you enjoy the romance of them as much as I do.

This is my second book involving Hallie and Pop’s foster family in the little coastal town of Wetherby—the first being Izzy and Mac’s story in A Forever Family for the Army Doc. And now I’ve become acquainted with them all there will be two more books to come!

Meredith Webber

Engaged to the Doctor Sheikh

Meredith Webber

www.millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk)

MEREDITH WEBBER lives on the sunny Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia, but takes regular trips west into the Outback, fossicking for gold or opal. These breaks in the beautiful and sometimes cruel red earth country provide her with an escape from the writing desk and a chance for her mind to roam free—not to mention getting some much needed exercise. They also supply the kernels of so many stories it’s hard for her to stop writing!

Books by Meredith Webber

Mills & Boon Medical Romance

The Halliday Family

A Forever Family for the Army Doc

Wildfire Island Docs

The Man She Could Never Forget

A Sheikh to Capture Her Heart

The Accidental Daddy

The Sheikh Doctor’s Bride

The One Man to Heal Her

Visit the Author Profile page at millsandboon.co.uk (http://www.millsandboon.co.uk) for more titles.

Praise for Meredith Webber

‘The romance is emotional, passionate, and does not appear to be forced as everything happens gradually and naturally. The author’s fans and everyone who loves sheikh romance are gonna love this one.’

—Harlequin Junkie on

The Sheikh Doctor’s Bride

Contents

Cover (#u3d2e453b-d530-5148-9c5f-79ac4ab43a09)

Back Cover Text (#u94253726-e8cd-53fb-a2a4-bf4c23eb68ba)

Introduction (#u1b9f03ff-8812-5dcc-91fc-2e644ef9a95f)

Dear Reader (#uc87b1703-79f5-5e58-85f5-c3f8caab5025)

Title Page (#ucb0d8bfa-b1e7-5358-a065-913e5cbc722c)

About the Author (#uda257fbf-3baa-55ba-b2b4-35c6bab94a68)

Praise (#uaa9bc903-8847-5512-bd4d-798f02b05d67)

CHAPTER ONE (#ub2d7c975-a764-5771-8b42-75929b896c7d)

CHAPTER TWO (#u041d5475-d358-5cb0-ac00-a949aed58ad4)

CHAPTER THREE (#uea7a5989-1281-5420-a4a7-ed20fe15f619)

CHAPTER FOUR (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER FIVE (#litres_trial_promo)