Taming the Sheik

This story starts of where the last one "Fit for a sheik" left of, at Tarik & Carolyn's wedding. The hero, Rafik is one of the groomsmen & cousin of Tarik's. Anne is Carolyn's best friend & bridesmaid.While at the reception Anne is taken ill, only Rafik thinks she's drunk. Rafik takes her home, only they never made it. Anne has collapsed in Rafik's car & he doesn't know where she lives. He does the only thing he can & that is take her back to his hotel to sleep it of.Anne is spotted by parents of her pupils being carried unconsious up to Rafik's room. This causes problems for her with the headmistress & school board. Anne has no choice but to to produce Rafik as her fiance. Rafik himself has a need for a fiance to keep his parents of his back about marrying. When his parents meet Anne they are enchanted with her. His father immediately anounces their engagement. Much to Rafik & Anne's dismay. What can they do now? How can they let Rafik's family know it's all a sham?

This is the sequel to "Fit for a Sheik" by Carol Grace. Anne, a sensible school teacher, is bridesmaid in her friend Carol's wedding and meets the groom's cousin Sheik Rafik Harun. Although Sheik Rafik normally prefers sophisticated women he's instantly attracted to Annie. Carol, worried that her innocent friend Annie will be hurt by Sheik Rafik, warns him Anne's not his type. Anne overhears this conversation and tries to avoid him realizing her friend may be right.After taking too many antihistamines at the wedding she makes the mistake of having champagne at the reception and starts to feel ill. Sheik Rafik sees Anne isn't feeling well, thinks she's drunk and sympathetically offers to drive Anne home but she passes out in the car before telling him where to go. Rather than embarrass her by taking her back to the reception unconscious he takes her to his hotel to sleep it off. As he walks through the hotel lobby several people going to one of the restaurants notice him carrying Annie to the elevators and recognize both of them. (This becomes a problem for Anne later since she works for a prestigious school that has strict moral standards for their teachers.) Once Sheik Rafik has Anne in his room he decides to remove her uncomfortable looking bridesmaid dress and puts one of his shirts on her instead. Too tired to return to the party knowing he has an early morning meeting he decides to go to sleep. In the morning he rushes to get ready, leaves Annie money for a taxi & goes to work with Annie still fast asleep in the bed. When Annie wakes up in a strange hotel room in a strange man's shirt she's nearly hysterical. To make matters worse once she discovers who she stayed with last night she realizes her purse, housekeys, money & shoes are not in the hotel room. Anne knows where Sheik Rafik works so she takes a taxi to his office wearing the bridesmaid dress from the previous night but barefoot. She goes to his office & gets her belongings but get into a fight when Sheik Rafik refuses to tell her what happened between them. He thinks it's funny telling her they slept together since he doesn't know she's a virgin. Anne storms out of the office and takes a taxi home. In the meantime, Sheik Rafik's father begins pressuring him to get married. Rafik's brother suggests the best way out of getting married is to have a long engagement with Anne as a set up so their parents won't try to arrange a marriage with anyone. Rafik decides to suggest it to her but doesn't think she'll agree. Anne goes to school to prepare for the new school year and finds out several of the parents were at the hotel and saw her with Sheik Rafik. She finds out her job is in jeopardy if she can't produce Sheik Rafik as her fiancee. When he meets with her to suggest it she decides to do it if he'll help her keep her job by posing as her fiancee at a staff party at her school. Once his family learns about the engagement they begin planning the wedding and things begin to slip out