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The Sheik

2004200 pagesKessinger Publishing

Synopsis

A young Englishwoman seeking adventure in the Algerian desert finds herself kidnapped by a powerful sheik. Despite her initial resistance to her captor, she begins to fall for him. When a rival takes her, the sheik realizes the depth of his feelings and must fight to win her back.

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About the author

Edith Maude Henderson was born on 16 August 1880 in the Borough of Hampstead, London, England, UK, the daughter of Katie Thorne, of New Brunswick, Canada and James Henderson, a shipowner from Liverpool. As a child she traveled widely with her parents, even visiting Algeria—the setting of her novels. In 1899, she married Percy Winstanley Hull (b. 1869) in London and the couple moved to Derbyshire in the early 1900s. They had a daughter Cecil Winstanley Hull, who also wrote a book Six Weeks in Alg...

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Diana MayoProtagonist
Sheik Ahmed Ben HassanProtagonist

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