Sheikh Prince Ibrahim refuses to bow to the duty that has destroyed his family by locking away his emotions and shunning his royal responsibility. Georgie is just the kind of woman duty demands he should avoid--streetwise, troubled and not interested in being queen--exactly the challenge Ibrahim seeks. Trapped among the swirling sands, in the burning heart of the desert, Georgie finally surrenders to the brooding rebel prince--yet the law of his land decrees that she can never really be his.