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    Beyond the Veil
    Beyond the Veil
    Beyond the Veil
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    Beyond the Veil

    By Courtney Sheets

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    Desari Nazir has spent years hiding her true feelings and her secret nights as a belly dancer from her best friend, Kanin Reeves. So when the blond Adonis wanders into the restaurant where she moonlights, she realizes her luck has run out. Little does she know the half veil she's donned doesn't hide her violet eyes or her identity from him.

    When Kanin takes one look at the mysterious belly dancer, Dara, recognizes her as his shy, reserved friend. He has waited years to show the beautiful belly dancer he can be more than a friend, and this is an opportunity he's not about to waste. He'll lie if he has to, cheat all fates, and beg the gods of Christmas to make her his.

    One way or another, the couple will live their long-awaited fantasy this holiday season...if they only have the courage to look Beyond The Veil.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDecadent Publishing
    Release dateNov 3, 2017
    ISBN9781683611905
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      Beyond the Veil - Courtney Sheets

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      Please purchase only authorized electronic editions and do not participate in, or encourage, the electronic piracy of copyrighted materials. Your support of the author’s rights is appreciated.

      This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

      Beyond the Veil

      Copyright 2017 by Courtney Sheets

      ISBN: 978-1-68361-190-5

      Cover art by Fantasia Frog Designs

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      All rights reserved. Except for use in any review, the reproduction or utilization of this work, in whole or in part, in any form by any electronic, mechanical or other means now known or hereafter invented, is forbidden without the written permission of the publisher.

      Published by Decadent Publishing Company, LLC

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      www.decadentpublishing.com

      Dear Readers, Meet Desari, one of the Nazir triplets. You met her sister Kissa in the first of this series, Kissa Under the Mistletoe. Now it’s time for Desari to have some Christmas magic. She’s shy and sweet but has a secret. She dances at her cousin’s restaurant a few nights a week. And she’s madly in love with her best friends. Ok, maybe that’s two secrets. But Kanin has a secret too. He loves her right back. I hope you fall in love with Desari and Kanin as they fall in love with each other. Merry Christmas from Sin City and the Nazir Triplets!

      You can reach me via my website www.seegevega.com or on Twitter @seegevega

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      Beyond the Veil

      Desari Nazir has spent years hiding her true feelings and her secret nights as a belly dancer from her best friend, Kanin Reeves. So when the blond Adonis wanders into the restaurant where she moonlights, she realizes her luck has run out. Little does she know the half veil she's donned doesn't hide her violet eyes or her identity from him.

      When Kanin takes one look at the mysterious belly dancer, Dara, recognizes her as his shy, reserved friend. He has waited years to show the beautiful belly dancer he can be more than a friend, and this is an opportunity he's not about to waste. He'll lie if he has to, cheat all fates, and beg the gods of Christmas to make her his.

      One way or another, the couple will live their long-awaited fantasy this holiday season...if they only have the courage to look Beyond The Veil.

      Beyond the Veil

      by

      Courtney Sheets

      Chapter One

      Kismet is on my side. Desari Nazir climbed out of her beat-up Pontiac and headed into her cousin Omar’s restaurant. Pushing open the door, Desari was overcome with the warmth, the hot air a gift on the winter’s night. Middle Eastern spices—curry, coriander, and cinnamon—assaulted her nose and made her mouth water. When she finished dancing, a plate of warm chicken curry, or something equally tempting, would be waiting.

      Good evening, Dara. Ready to dance? Omar greeted her with a smile. She grinned back, gestured at her watch, held up five fingers, and marched back to the dressing room. She needed a few minutes to put her makeup on and change.

      Stripping out of the conservative suit she always wore at her day job as sales manager at Michelson’s Department store, Desari donned the low-slung amethyst skirt made of gauzy strips of silk. She shoved her ample breasts into the matching bra top. She tied her ankle bracelets on and secured the tika to her forehead. Desari finished off her jewelry with several hammered silver bracelets from Cairo given to her by her sister Kissa. Dangling chandelier earrings her other sister, Suhaila, picked up on a trip in

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