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Dear Ms. Mallery:
In an effort to broaden my horizons and understand the appeal of the category romance and to support Harlequin’s phenomenal digital effort, I’ve taken to buying two or three series books a month. A while back I purchased The Sheik and The Virgin Secretary because the title exemplified two of the most villified but standard tropes within the series genre plus it was a play on the Boss/Secretary theme. I had to read it.
Prince Rafiq of Lucia-Serrat is the standard issue prince from some unknown principality overlooking the Indian Ocean. He’s very rich and tends to be a serial monogamist. When his assistant of two years, Kiley Hendrick, is in her office on Monday morning instead of her honeymoon, Rafiq was surprised but even more when Kiley suggests that since he gave his last mistress her conge, she fill that position.
Kiley is a very practical and direct person. She lays out all the reasons that she would make a good mistress. She doesn’t make unreasonable demands; she understands his need to work; she “clean[s] up pretty well”; is smart, and has a sense …
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