Sheikh heroes have long been a fantasy for author Susan Stephens! Susan’s here to long about it and her book Sheikh Boss, Hot Desert Nights in stores now…

by Susan Stephens, author of Sheikh Boss, Hot Desert Nights (Harlequin Presents, July 2009)

The best day of my reading life happened when I was around seven years old and I discovered a thick book of Grimms fairy tales holding up the leg of my favourite chair. That was like discovering buried treasure to me. I devoured it and became addicted from that moment on to fairy tales.

My favourite fantasy — influenced, I have to say, by an ad on TV at the time I think it was for Turkish delight, but for some reason it featured a sheikh and a tent with billowing sides and a truckload of silken cushions — always involved a man riding an Arabian stallion, wearing flowing robes with a brooding look in his eyes… not to mention secrets in his heart.

Well, that was me hooked. More than anything I love to take my romances behind the silken veil to discover the fantasy desert and the fantasy lover who awaits me there. Tall, dark and handsome is just a starting point — these days he has has to be ultra-smart to cope with my feisty heroines who turn up on his tent-step. Plus, he not only has to fulfill all my wildest dreams, he has to exceed them.

Sheikh Boss, Hot Desert Nights, the book I am thrilled to know will be released on the 60th Anniversary of Harlequin romance, grew out of this passion and follows the story of a real Sheikh al Bad Boy, Sheikh Rafik al Rafar of A’Qaban.

Raffa, as he likes to be known, is a younger sheikh for me — an alpha in the making, if you will. I gave him a worthy heroine, Casey Michaels, a sassy young business woman who won’t take Heat from anyone. Combustible? Explosive, I’d say. I hope you enjoy!

All my very best to you and yours,

Susan
www.susanstephens.com

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