"Another superb SDDU book!"

I've been a huge fan of Dana Marton's Special Designation Defense Unit or SDDU books since her very first one and while this is an SDDU book, it's quite different from the others in the series. First this is about a female member of the team Dara Alexander. Second, it has a gorgeous sexy sheik in it! Needless to say, that got my attention right away!

Dara is temporarily assigned to a team doing desert recon over Beharrain when the plane is shot down. Luckily Dara is far enough away after parachuting from the plane when it blew up but she didn't escape without injuries. She knows she may not last long in the desert.

Sheik Saeed ibn Ahmad ibn Salim ben Zayed has already had two assassination attempts on his life when he comes across Dara in the desert. He thinks she's an assassin as well until she doesn't move. He at first things she's a man until he loosens her clothing and tries to give her some water.

Dara comes to quite abruptly when Saeed is attacked. She saves his life when she throws her spare knife and kills the man attacking him. She isn't sure she did the right thing at first but soon finds out who he is. She decides to fake amnesia until she knows a little more about her situation.

Saeed and Dara don't have any earthly idea how far over their heads they are with the whole situation. They just know they are very attracted to each other but know nothing can come of it. They are just too different from two different worlds.

The action and adventure not to mention the romance in this story had me turning pages as quickly as I could. I couldn't read this book fast enough to find out exactly what was going to happen. I highly recommend this wonderful intrigue!

Reviewed by Kathy Boswell
Posted October 11, 2005

Summary

He demanded to know her identity after she felled his attacker with deadly precision. But Dara Alexander feigned amnesia rather than reveal the truth to this blue-eyed Bedouin: she was an American soldier..behind enemy lines. For all she knew, this man was her greatest threat.

Sheik Saeed ibn Ahmad was no nomad, she would learn at his desert encampment, but a powerful royal, the target of assassins. Suddenly, his protection became her assignment—an arrangement Saeed refused. Because she was a woman, Dara assumed. And she was right. But Saeed wanted her...to cherish and defend.