Aid worker Nikki Hunt only wanted to ask Sheik Zakir Al Arif for safe passage across his war-torn country. She never expected to be taken prisoner by the handsome, secretive sheik. Or to be attracted by the lust his dark stare set off in her-a lust as hot as the Sahara.Desperate to thwart a coup, Zakir was forced to hold the beautiful stranger captive-though what he really wanted was to take her to his bed. In close quarters, Nikki and Zakir succumbed to their explosive desire-until an enemy within forced an act of betrayal that could tear them apart forever….