He didn't understand what it meant to her
Maybe it was an impossible, sentimental task. But Celia was - determined to stay in Bahrain until she located her father's first love, the beautiful Arab girl Nevine.

And simply because he'd rescued her from trouble that McCord man had no right to lecture her on the folly of her mission.

Such an arrogant, infuriatingly practical man! She fervently wished that she didn't also find him so very intriguing.... (less)