| Victoria has gone to Egypt to oversee her dead father's excavations on a dig he was working on. However there had been some thefts before her father died of some of the objects so she doesn't know who to trust. Tariq who had also worked at the site and who Victoria is falling in love with offers to marry her, and be the man in charge of the money for the dig so they can get the permit to continue digging, in a name only way and after the dig is complete they will divorce. Victoria agrees and the ceremony is completed. They share the same tent with a curtain between them. Victoria is determined to make the marriage real. After they find a hidden area in the tomb with all kinds of artifacts, they set a trap for who they believe is the thief and catch him red handed. He is carted off by the police but now Victoria must convince Tariq to stay her husband.
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Plot & Themes Time/era of story Marriage/Married Yes Marriage subplot: Action/suspense subplot? Yes Action: Main Female Character Unusual characteristics: Setting Desert? Yes Writing Style Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment What % of story is romance related? - 80% Focus of story - equally on him and her How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog |
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