Quote:A slow-burn east meets west romance.

The illegitimate daughter has been brought to the desert kingdom, but she won't play by its rules.

As the king's right-hand-man, Mahir's strict code of conduct has been ingrained into him since he was a child and has become a way of life. He knows his job well, and his place within the palace. Distance and neutrality has been his life, and the only way he can serve his king and country effectively.

However, the newest member of the royal family has arrived, and having been raised in the west to a single mother the king refused to acknowledge, Farah is as bold and confident as she is beautiful. And Mahir has caught her eye. She does her utmost to fray every last strand of his self-control, but he knows she is not his to love.

Determined to ignore the intense passion Mahir feels for Farah might be harder than he at first believes, and before he knows it, the all-consuming power of their attraction will test Mahir's iron-clad control more than he could have imagined. As the desert sun rises in the east, so does the forbidden passion that burns between them, threatening everything...