Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Helping Kismet
    Helping Kismet
    Helping Kismet
    Ebook60 pages1 hour

    Helping Kismet

    By Dahlia Rose

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Ciji Fay never had a problem with taking the difficult assignments, so when her job at the UN sent her to Saudi Arabia to audit a charity foundation, she fully intended to immerse herself in the culture and the history of the amazing country. She never thought she would be in the midst of danger and running for her life. The numbers were wrong, and some very important people now wanted her dead. When she was pulled into a shop in the middle of the marketplace, Ciji looked into the eyes of her savior, Layth Ghassan. He was a prince and a soldier who walked in both worlds. He took it upon himself to protect her and get her to safety behind his castle walls. There he could get her passage back to London. In the midst of danger, Layth whispered all the words she wanted to hear, and the chemistry between then was as hot as the desert sun. She could feel herself falling for this brave warrior, but the differences between them seemed overwhelming. Was it kismet that put them on a collision path into each other’s lives? Or would she be dealt a bad hand by fate and walk away with her heart broken by a prince of the sands?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDahlia Rose
    Release dateSep 21, 2011
    ISBN9781936668878
    Helping Kismet
    Author

    Dahlia Rose

    Dahlia Rose is the best-selling author of contemporary, military and paranormal romance with a hint of Caribbean spice. She was born and raised on a Caribbean island and now currently lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her five kids, who she affectionately nicknamed “The Children of the Corn,” and her biggest supporter and longtime love. She has a love of erotica, dark fantasy, sci-fi, and the things that go bump in the night. With over six dozen books published Dahlia has become a reader favorite. Not only because of her writing but her vivacious attitude in talking to her fans online and at various events. Books and writing are her biggest passions, and she hopes to open your imagination to the unknown between the pages of her books. http://hearttoheartwithdahliarose.blogspot.com www.facebook.com/author.dahliarose www.twitter.com/dahliarose1029

    Read more from Dahlia Rose

    Related to Helping Kismet

    Related ebooks

    Contemporary Romance For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      How Reality Dating Shows Stoke Racial Tensions

      Jun 23, 2022

      Lauren and Cameron, Love Is Blind’s breakout stars, have succeeded not because of the show but in spite of it.

      12 min read

    • Article

      Suspicious Minds

      Apr 7, 2022

      Suspicious Minds
      5 min read

    • Article

      Famous People

      Mar 1, 2022

      Famous People
      15 min read

    • Article

      Lady with A LUTE

      Aug 3, 2022

      Lady with A LUTE
      9 min read

    • Article

      The King’s passion

      Aug 11, 2021

      The King’s passion
      11 min read

    • Article

      The King’s passion

      Aug 11, 2021

      The King’s passion
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Duplex

      Jun 9, 2020

      I moved to Los Angeles to sing. When was this? August? June? I was twenty-nine, and those were shapeless months, when the days blended together and I refused to pull them apart. My landlord was unusually close to her adult son. His name was Jeffrey,

      21 min read

    • Article

      Palabra

      Jun 1, 2023

      WHEN JOSEPH brought his young wife Palabra to visit Grandmother, his brother Ned, worried by the warmth and expansion of his chest, avoided his wife Stacey's eye, and Stacey understood that all eyes, male, female, old, young, were going henceforward

      5 min read

    • Article

      Making Time TO MEET

      Sep 9, 2020

      Making Time TO MEET
      6 min read

    • Article

      Lobolo Intentions

      Apr 16, 2021

      Lobolo Intentions
      6 min read

    • Article

      Secrets and LIES

      Mar 17, 2021

      Secrets and LIES
      6 min read

    • Article

      Great Dane

      Oct 23, 2022

      Great Dane
      7 min read

    • Article

      Right

      Jun 1, 2022

      Right
      4 min read

    • Article

      The Greater Good

      Jul 10, 2023

      Rachel closed down the screen on her wrist-tab. She smiled at the man sitting across the desk and waited for him to begin. “I want to request a dissolution,” he said. “My mother—she was murdered—and I want the man who did it dissolved.” Rachel frowne

      13 min read

    • Article

      Life On The Edge

      Mar 4, 2024

      Life On The Edge
      8 min read

    • Article

      Helen

      Jun 5, 2023

      She was a friend of my family—the Carlins, as I have chosen to call them. She and my father met in the fifties through the editor of the architecture magazine where she began her career. My father had taken her out a few times. They were never lovers

      30 min read

    • Article

      Just Passing

      Aug 17, 2020

      Zoe cracks the curtain in the bay window and watches as he bounces from one foot to another in the cold. Tap, tap, tap, he goes at the letterbox. But she shouldn’t even let him in. He’s trouble. He throws his arms out and shouts through the glass: “S

      5 min read

    • Article

      Proverbs Of A Faceless Time

      Dec 1, 2023

      Proverbs Of A Faceless Time
      9 min read

    • Article

      Six Million Reasons

      Jul 9, 2021

      Six Million Reasons
      6 min read

    • Article

      Happy Endings

      Sep 1, 2023

      Happy Endings
      5 min read

    • Article

      Conversations with My Nanny

      Jan 10, 2019

      Conversations with My Nanny
      3 min read

    • Article

      The Mr Darcy MYSTERY

      Nov 23, 2022

      The Mr Darcy MYSTERY
      6 min read

    • Article

      The July War

      Sep 8, 2020

      In summer, our neighborhood quiets in phases. The quieting begins in May. Schools give their older kids, the seventeen- and eighteen-year-olds, a month off to prepare for the baccalaureate exams. Following a ritual as old as our parents, the students

      21 min read

    • Article

      Welcome to Reliance

      Dec 1, 2021

      Welcome to Reliance
      11 min read

    • Article

      My Friend, Mitzi

      Jul 16, 2021

      My Friend, Mitzi
      5 min read

    • Article

      Life After Death

      May 27, 2022

      Life After Death
      14 min read

    • Article

      Whom He May Devour: Saving her planet would ban her from paradise.

      Jan 7, 2016

      Lydia watched Ahad play the guitar. He leaned against a boulder, eyes shut, his face positioned to catch the last warm rays of the setting sun. His long, slender fingers caressed the strings, producing a slow, haunting melody. The music almost made h

      17 min read

    • Article

      Losing Battle

      Oct 30, 2020

      Losing Battle
      5 min read

    • Article

      Left To Lose

      Jul 10, 2022

      Around the time she gives up her name, it starts to feel like this entire revolution isn’t worth it anymore. The world is probably lucky that Kelian—she still remembers Kelian, in spite of everything—is there to pick up the pieces, the way he always

      11 min read

    • Article

      Little CHARMS

      Oct 19, 2022

      Little CHARMS
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Helping Kismet

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Helping Kismet - Dahlia Rose

      Helping Kismet

      By Dahlia Rose

      Published by Dahlia Rose at Smashwords

      www.authordahliarose.com

      Copyright © September 2011 Dahlia Rose

      Cover Art by For the Muses Design

      ISBN 978-1-936668-87-8

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be resold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Chapter One

      Your highness it’s highly unlikely I’m wrong. I never make mistakes. Her dark eyes flashed defiantly behind the traditional dress of Saudi Arabia.

      Prince Layth Ghassan watched her with interest sitting beside his father at the long conference room table. They listened as this woman pointed out what she’d found when she was auditing a charity in their country that was in conjunction with the United Nations. It wasn’t good at all, but Layth wasn’t paying it as much attention as he was to her. Her British accent was a delight to listen to combined with her husky voice, filled with fire and indignation at his father’s words. She was all proper. He remembered English girls well because he was educated in her country. So stiff and prim until you got under their skin. He wondered about her skin beneath the veil and clothes. From her hands he could see that she was a beautiful milk chocolate color. Her eyes were shaped like wide almonds and light brown. They sizzled in her anger easily enough as if she’d said the words to show her anger. He decided it might be wise to listen to the conversation instead of thinking about her. His father was the king of these lands. He didn’t want to see the young woman thrown into a jail because of disrespect. No, not one that enthralled him enough with one glance.

      His father began speaking. Miss Fay, Let me assure you that the charity you speak of is run by my top financial aide. This is my daughter’s special project, and I will allow no one else to work with her except Josef. If there are discrepancies in the numbers, you obviously need to check them again.

      Sir, if I may be so blunt, again I do not make mistakes. She took off her glasses and unclipped the veil from behind her ear. The reason why I work in the United Nations audit department is because they know this. My intelligence level is over one hundred and eighty-five, well past genius stage, and I have a photographic memory. Take that ring your son is wearing for instance. Ask me what it looks like ten years from now, and I could describe it down to the ruby set as the lion’s eye. I resent the implication that it is I who has made an error. Furthermore, I have some of the women of your country who talk to me that live close to my hotel. There is no widows and orphans home in Diriyah. Right here in the paperwork is exactly what fourteen million dollars has been allotted to do, seven from your government and seven from the UN. I don’t know if you are accustomed to losing that amount of money, but certainly, sir, we are not.

      Temper, temper, Layth thought with a mental laugh. There weren’t many who his father would let speak to him in such a way. He’d actually only heard his mother chastise his father which more delighted his father than upset him.. Yet a quick glance over to his father showed him that the king was trying very hard not to let his mouth curve into a smile. His father liked fiery women, and it seemed Layth inherited that trait as well. Right now Ciji Fay excited him like no other had.

      What do you think, my son? his father asked.

      I think if she is correct then investigation needs to be started immediately, Layth answered readily. We do not need to give the world pause when it comes to our honor. We take care of our people, Miss Fay, and this matter will be investigated thoroughly.

      She took a deep breath. Thank you so much. I have given my superiors the initial information and will keep my report open until you have more about what’s going on for me to give to them. I can be reached at the Palms Hotel. She rose to leave. "My apologies if it seems I came off rather abrupt on this matter. It’s an honorable thing you are doing for your people. I

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1