Novel-novel oleh E Franklin

Introduction Mia Bennett had never planned to fall in love in Dubai. She had planned, quite specifically, to spend nine days doing nothing more dangerous than photographing skyscrapers and eating too much saffron ice cream before flying home to Portland and the life she'd built in careful, sensible pieces — a small apartment, a steady job at a design firm, a heart she kept folded neatly away like something too fragile for daily use. She did not plan for the man in the plain white kandura who nearly knocked her into a fountain at the Gold Souk, who apologized in an accent that curled warm around every word, who looked at her the way no one had looked at her in years — like she was the only fixed point in a spinning city. She did not know his name yet. She did not know that behind the modest clothes and the easy laugh was a man the world called Your Highness. She only knew that something in her chest, long dormant, had quietly, stubbornly, begun to wake up. This is the story of ten days. Of a prince who wanted, for once, to be seen as just a man. Of a woman who never wanted a fairy tale and got one anyway. Of the slow, aching, inevitable pull between two people who had every reason to walk away — and one small, unreasonable reason to stay. This is the story of a night that became a lifetime