{"id":1930,"date":"2015-07-16T15:25:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/abbygreen\/?post_type=portfolio&#038;p=244"},"modified":"2015-08-25T20:19:42","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T19:19:42","slug":"the-sultans-choice","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/abby-green.com\/portfolio-item\/the-sultans-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sultan\u2019s Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-d18d8c2c81d10022ebd21ffa95322c35 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-shadow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-1930'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_two_fifth-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb\">\n.flex_column.av-av_two_fifth-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_two_fifth-352b07ef7d3bc99b2e9f92e7a9e06bdb av_two_fifth  avia-builder-el-1  el_before_av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-first  first flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051\">\n#top .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051{\npadding-bottom:10px;\n}\nbody .av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 .av-special-heading-tag .heading-char{\nfont-size:25px;\n}\n.av-special-heading.av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 .av-subheading{\nfont-size:15px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='av-special-heading av-av_heading-42d85e5d42d4a3afb03a73e989228051 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-2  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first '><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Description<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>Princess Samia has to marry the world\u2019s most notorious and elusive playboy: Sultan Sadiq of Al \u2013 Omar. She knows she is not the woman for him. But all he wants is a quiet and biddable wife. Sultan Sadiq is not prepared for when his new wife turns out to be far more alluring and complex than he could have ever imagined\u2026suddenly a marriage of convenience becomes a marriage of desire, something neither of them expected.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-av_toggle_container-f0c39e76d1f074f51d6efd8dbfc052b2  avia-builder-el-4  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_hr  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-av_toggle-9d5f8ac2b451537d93ad456359074623'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1'>Review of THE SULTAN\u2019S CHOICE<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>THE SULTAN\u2019S CHOICE (4) by Abby Green: Sultan Sadiq Hussein needs a wife, and he has the perfect candidate in mind, Princess Samia \u2014 with her mousy plain exterior, she could provide him with an ideal political alliance, the necessary heirs and she won\u2019t distract him from the important task of running his country. But first he has to persuade a defiant Samia to say \u201cI do\u201d and then he has to tame his libido that rages out of control whenever he\u2019s near her. Green writes an entrancing romance, where vulnerable characters transform as their love grows.<\/p>\n<p>Reviewed By: Sabrina Madan (Romantic Times)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><br \/>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_hr-42b83fc1d7e0886e3795b0f5da2f91a7\">\n#top .hr.hr-invisible.av-av_hr-42b83fc1d7e0886e3795b0f5da2f91a7{\nheight:25px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='hr av-av_hr-42b83fc1d7e0886e3795b0f5da2f91a7 hr-invisible  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_toggle_container  el_before_av_button '><span class='hr-inner '><span class=\"hr-inner-style\"><\/span><\/span><\/div><br \/>\n<div  class='avia-button-wrap av-av_button-c92618446e5c68b64e558e8e19060c32-wrap avia-button-left  avia-builder-el-6  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_hr '><a href='#excerpt'  class='avia-button av-av_button-c92618446e5c68b64e558e8e19060c32 avia-icon_select-yes-left-icon avia-size-medium avia-position-left avia-color-dark'  ><span 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itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Mills &amp; Boon<\/strong><br \/>\nAugust 19, 2011<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN<\/strong>: 0263886883<\/p>\n<p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_font_icon-d69fd20d6539acc16481577de3cb60fc\">\n.av_font_icon.av-av_font_icon-d69fd20d6539acc16481577de3cb60fc .av-icon-char{\nfont-size:40px;\nline-height:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<span  class='av_font_icon av-av_font_icon-d69fd20d6539acc16481577de3cb60fc avia_animate_when_visible av-icon-style- avia-icon-pos-left av-no-color avia-icon-animate'><a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0263886883\/agreen-21' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class='av-icon-char' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue924' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><\/span> BUY NOW<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" 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itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Harlequin Presents<\/strong><br \/>\nMarch 6, 2012<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN<\/strong>: 0373528574<\/p>\n<p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_font_icon-64657e940c1ab67815012ca160003e50\">\n.av_font_icon.av-av_font_icon-64657e940c1ab67815012ca160003e50 .av-icon-char{\nfont-size:40px;\nline-height:40px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<span  class='av_font_icon av-av_font_icon-64657e940c1ab67815012ca160003e50 avia_animate_when_visible av-icon-style- avia-icon-pos-left av-no-color avia-icon-animate'><a href='http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0373528574\/agreen-20' target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class='av-icon-char' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue924' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><\/span> BUY NOW<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" 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av-av_heading-e9cad15387a05188b015956eeb079a49 av-special-heading-h3 blockquote modern-quote  avia-builder-el-25  el_after_av_hr  el_before_av_textblock  av-inherit-size'><div class='av-subheading av-subheading_above'><p>Excerpt from<\/p>\n<\/div><h3 class='av-special-heading-tag'  itemprop=\"headline\"  >The Sultan\u2019s Choice<\/h3><div class=\"special-heading-border\"><div class=\"special-heading-inner-border\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-35972167d9f102c5ddaec0c531c98b9e'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><div id=\"book-col-1\">\n<p>\u2018I\u2019m not marrying her for her looks Adil, I\u2019m marrying her for the myriad reasons she will make a good Queen of Al \u2013 Omar. If I\u2019d wanted nothing but looks I could have married my last mistress. The last thing I need is the distraction of a beautiful woman.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Princess Samia Binte Rashad al Abbas sat rigid with shock outside the Sultan of Al \u2013 Omar\u2019s private office in his London home. He hadn\u2019t been informed that she was there yet as he\u2019d been on this call. His secretary, who had left momentarily, had also inadvertently left his door slightly ajar \u2013 subjecting Samia to the deep rumble of the Sultan\u2019s voice and his even more cataclysmic words.<\/p>\n<p>The drawling voice came again tinged with something deeply cynical, \u2018That she may well appear, but certain people have always speculated that when the time come to take my bride, I\u2019d choose conservatively, and I\u2019d hate to let the bookies down.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Samia\u2019s cheeks burned. She could well imagine what the voice on the other end of the phone had said, something to the effect of her being boring.<\/p>\n<p>Even if she hadn\u2019t heard this explicit conversation Samia already knew what the Sultan of Al \u2013 Omar planned to discuss with her. He wanted her hand in marriage. She hadn\u2019t slept a wink and had come here today half hoping that it would all be a terrible mistake. To hear him lay out in such bald terms that he was clearly in favour of this plan was shocking. And not only that \u2013 but he evidently considered it to be a done deal!<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019d only met him once before, about eight years previously when she\u2019d gone to one of his legendary annual birthday parties in B\u2019harani the capital of Al \u2013 Omar, with her brother. Kaden had brought her before she\u2019d gone on to England to finish her studies in a bid to try and help her overcome her chronic shyness. Samia had been at that awfully awkward age where her limbs had had a mind of their own, her hair was a ball of frizz and she\u2019d still been wearing the thick bi \u2013 focals that had plagued her life since she was small.<\/p>\n<p>After an excruciatingly embarrassing moment in which she\u2019d knocked over a small antique table laden down with drinks and the crowd of glittering and beautiful people had turned to look at her, she\u2019d fled for sanctuary, finding it in a dimly lit room which turned out to be a library.<\/p>\n<p>Samia ruthlessly clamped down on that even more incendiary and disturbing memory just as the Sultan\u2019s voice rose to audible pitch level again.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Adil I appreciate that as my lawyer you want to ensure I\u2019m making the right choice but I can assure you that she ticks all the boxes \u2013 I\u2019m not so shallow that I can\u2019t make a marriage like this work. The stability and reputation of my country comes first and I need a wife who will enhance that.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Mortification twisted Samia\u2019s insides. He was referring to the fact that she was a world apart from his usual women. She didn\u2019t need to overhear this conversation to know that. Samia didn\u2019t want to marry this man and she certainly wasn\u2019t going to sit here and wait for humiliation to walk up and slap her in the face.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Sultan Sadiq Ibn Kamal Hussein put down the phone and every muscle was tensed. Claustrophobia and an unwelcome sense of powerlessness drove him up out of his leather chair and to the window where he looked out onto a busy square, right in the exclusive heart of London.<\/p>\n<p>Delaying the moment of inevitability a little longer Sadiq swung back to his desk where a sheaf of photos was laid out. Princess Samia of Burquat. She was from a small independent Emirate which lay on his northern borders, on the Persian Gulf. She had three younger half \u2013 sisters. Her older brother had become the ruling Emir on the death of their father some twelve years before.<\/p>\n<p>Sadiq frowned minutely. He too had been crowned young so he knew what the yoke of responsibility was like. How heavy it could be. Even so, he wasn\u2019t such a fool to consider that he and the Emir could be friends, just like that. But, if the Princess agreed to this marriage \u2014 and why wouldn\u2019t she? \u2014 then they would be brothers\u2013in-law.<\/p>\n<p>He sighed. The photos sent him indistinct images of an average sized and slim looking woman. She\u2019d lost the puppy fat he vaguely remembered from when he\u2019d met her at one of his parties. None of the pictures had captured her fully. The best ones were from last summer when she\u2019d returned from a sailing trip with two friends. But even in the press photos she\u2019d been sandwiched between two other much prettier, taller girls and a baseball cap had all but hidden her from view.<\/p>\n<p>The most important consideration here was that none of the photos came from the tabloids. Princess Samia was not part of the Royal Arabian party set. She was discreet and had carved out a quiet respectable career as an archivist in the National Library, after completing her degree. For that reason and many others, she was perfect. He didn\u2019t want a wife who would bring with her a dubious past life, or any whiff of scandal, he\u2019d courted enough press attention himself with who he was dating or not dating. And to that end he\u2019d had Samia thoroughly investigated, making sure there were no skeletons lurking in any closet.<\/p>\n<p>His marriage would not be like his parents\u2019. It would not be driven by mad jealous rage and resemble a battlefield. He would not sink the country into a vortex of corruption as his father had done because he\u2019d been too distracted by a wife who\u2019d resented every moment of being married to a man she didn\u2019t want to be married to. His father had famously pursued his mother and it was all but common knowledge that in his obsession to have the renowned beauty who was reputed to be in love with another; he\u2019d paid her family a phenomenal dowry for her. His mother\u2019s constant sadness had driven Sadiq far away for most of his life.<\/p>\n<p>He needed a quiet, stable wife who would complement him, give him heirs and let him concentrate on running his country. And above all, who wouldn\u2019t engage his emotions. And from what he\u2019d seen of Princess Samia, she would be absolutely perfect.<\/p>\n<p>With a sense of fatalism in his bones he swept all the photos into a pile and put them under a folder. He had no choice but to go forward. His best friends \u2013 the ruling Sheikh and his brother from a small independent Sheikhdom within his borders had recently settled down and if he remained single for much longer he would begin to look directionless and unstable.<\/p>\n<p>He couldn\u2019t avoid his destiny. It was time to meet his future wife. He buzzed his secretary. \u2018Noor, you can send Princess Samia in.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate answer and a dart of irritation went through Sadiq. He was used to being obeyed the instant he made a request. Stifling that irritation because he knew it was stemming from something much deeper \u2013 the prospect of the demise of his freedom, he strode towards his door. The Princess should be here by now and he couldn\u2019t avoid the inevitable any longer.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Top<\/p>\n<p>The Sultan&#8217;s Choice &#8211; UK<\/p>\n<p>Mills &amp; Boon<br \/>\nAugust 19, 2011<br \/>\nISBN: 0263886883<br \/>\nBuy Now!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"book-col-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_fifth-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_fifth-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28{\n-webkit-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n-moz-border-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\nborder-radius:0px 0px 0px 0px;\npadding:0px 0px 0px 0px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div class='flex_column av-av_one_fifth-2a64de42b738552fe666ca889af77e28 av_one_fifth  avia-builder-el-27  el_after_av_three_fifth  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div av-zero-column-padding '     ><\/div>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to Learn More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[21],"portfolio_entries":[23],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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