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Lorna despised Khalid's type - men who saw women as either mistresses or chattels. She swore she'd be neither - even for the great Khalid al Hashib himself!
But she was inextricably involved in his life in Kuwait. The bonds that held her could not be severed....
Thrust against her will into the presence of this compelling man, she found her resistance fading - and all hope of happiness as well....
Lorna despised Khalid's type - men who saw women as either mistresses or chattels. She swore she'd be neither - even for the great Khalid al Hashib himself!
But she was inextricably involved in his life in Kuwait. The bonds that held her could not be severed....
Thrust against her will into the presence of this compelling man, she found her resistance fading - and all hope of happiness as well....
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First published June 13, 1980
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March 12, 2016
After recovering from pneumonia heroine Lorna Masters (an English nurse) receives advice from her doctor to take it easy and stay away from the hospital she's working at---try an easier job till she gets her strength back---maybe go into private nursing temporarily.
Lorna eventually accepts a job as nanny for a rich Arab family that is staying in England for awhile (Dana Rashid and her husband Hassan.) One day Lorna meets Dana's handsome half-brother (hero) Khalid while he is visiting (he lives in Kuwait). He seems to disapprove of Lorna and they argue a lot. He has a problem with career-oriented women from "the west". (His English mother abandoned him for her decorating career when he was young---his mother wanted to stay in England and not move away, so his father moved back to Kuwait and remarried, taking Khalid with him.)
After his father died Khalid took over his responsibilities and has forced his sister, Dana, into an arranged marriage (that isn't working). Dana is in love with Lorna's doctor-brother Allen, who Dana met in a hospital in Kuwait. Dana wants a divorce, Khalid wants her to stick to tradition. But after seeing how unhappy she is with her uncaring/unfaithful husband Khalid eventually changes his mind.
I found Khalid to be a bit annoying at times with his out-dated views on women but he surprisingly grew on me by the end of the book. I liked Lorna, she was a good heroine. I also enjoyed both romances, the main couple Lorna and Khalid and Dana and Allen.
A satisfactory story with lots of tension, a car crash, secrets, etc...
Lorna eventually accepts a job as nanny for a rich Arab family that is staying in England for awhile (Dana Rashid and her husband Hassan.) One day Lorna meets Dana's handsome half-brother (hero) Khalid while he is visiting (he lives in Kuwait). He seems to disapprove of Lorna and they argue a lot. He has a problem with career-oriented women from "the west". (His English mother abandoned him for her decorating career when he was young---his mother wanted to stay in England and not move away, so his father moved back to Kuwait and remarried, taking Khalid with him.)
After his father died Khalid took over his responsibilities and has forced his sister, Dana, into an arranged marriage (that isn't working). Dana is in love with Lorna's doctor-brother Allen, who Dana met in a hospital in Kuwait. Dana wants a divorce, Khalid wants her to stick to tradition. But after seeing how unhappy she is with her uncaring/unfaithful husband Khalid eventually changes his mind.
I found Khalid to be a bit annoying at times with his out-dated views on women but he surprisingly grew on me by the end of the book. I liked Lorna, she was a good heroine. I also enjoyed both romances, the main couple Lorna and Khalid and Dana and Allen.
A satisfactory story with lots of tension, a car crash, secrets, etc...
January 15, 2018
OK so the biggest SPOILER in this novel is that the H Khalid discovers in the end that he isn't even of Kuwaiti descent. The author had described him as not looking like an Arab male but I just thought that maybe he had taken after his English mother rather than his Kuwaiti dad. However it turned out that his biological dad had been an English soldier who had died before he had been born. His Kuwaiti "dad" had married his mother and given him his name. The man had treated him as if he had indeed his biological son. This revelation kinda messed with me a bit so I am still trying to process it while I type. I admit that Khalid's mule headed old fashioned attitude towards women's roles in life annoyed me throughout the novel. The heroine Lorna did not let him boss her around though. She wasn't a shrew nor was she bitchy but she stood up for herself when he tried to make her his mistress.
My enjoyment of this novel was curtailed a bit by the annoying deception that Lorna was carrying out. Lorna knew that Khalid's married half sister ( and her employer ) was having an affair with her brother Allan and she didn't tell him. When he proposed marriage to her and told her he loved her she still didn't tell him. That bothered me a lot because she was basically putting Allan and Dana ahead of the person who is supposed to be more important in her life. To be fair to Lorna, she was in a horrible position and there was a shit storm of complications that surrounded Dana's and Allan's illicit relationship. The author justified it by making Dana's husband an adulterer but Dana herself had said a few times that she was willing to give up her baby daughter Amina to be with Allan. I am not a mother yet but I know I wouldn't give up my kid for a man. Hell I wouldn't give up my dogs for a man; my dogs and I are a package deal and my husband respects that. I lost a little respect for Dana when she made comments about giving up her baby daughter if her husband Hassan refused a divorce.
All those complications brought on by the minor characters' relationships just made the MC's tenuous engagement more pathetic because I kept waiting for the truth to come out. When it did, Khalid went ballistic as was predicted and of course he called Lorna a dishonest woman who had used him, rejected his love and put her concern for her brother above their engagement. Then Dana almost got herself killed in a car accident and Lorna left Kuwait to return to London. There was a short separation then Khalid returned to Lorna full of apologies. He also revealed the news of his biological paternity while also stating that he had arranged a quickie divorce for Dana so she could marry Allan. I know it all worked out well in the end but I must say that parts of this novel did annoy me a lot. Part of me couldn't help feeling that Khalid had only proposed to Lorna the first time because she didn't believe in premarital sex. I know this review is all over the place but it kinda reflects the way the feel about the story...
My enjoyment of this novel was curtailed a bit by the annoying deception that Lorna was carrying out. Lorna knew that Khalid's married half sister ( and her employer ) was having an affair with her brother Allan and she didn't tell him. When he proposed marriage to her and told her he loved her she still didn't tell him. That bothered me a lot because she was basically putting Allan and Dana ahead of the person who is supposed to be more important in her life. To be fair to Lorna, she was in a horrible position and there was a shit storm of complications that surrounded Dana's and Allan's illicit relationship. The author justified it by making Dana's husband an adulterer but Dana herself had said a few times that she was willing to give up her baby daughter Amina to be with Allan. I am not a mother yet but I know I wouldn't give up my kid for a man. Hell I wouldn't give up my dogs for a man; my dogs and I are a package deal and my husband respects that. I lost a little respect for Dana when she made comments about giving up her baby daughter if her husband Hassan refused a divorce.
All those complications brought on by the minor characters' relationships just made the MC's tenuous engagement more pathetic because I kept waiting for the truth to come out. When it did, Khalid went ballistic as was predicted and of course he called Lorna a dishonest woman who had used him, rejected his love and put her concern for her brother above their engagement. Then Dana almost got herself killed in a car accident and Lorna left Kuwait to return to London. There was a short separation then Khalid returned to Lorna full of apologies. He also revealed the news of his biological paternity while also stating that he had arranged a quickie divorce for Dana so she could marry Allan. I know it all worked out well in the end but I must say that parts of this novel did annoy me a lot. Part of me couldn't help feeling that Khalid had only proposed to Lorna the first time because she didn't believe in premarital sex. I know this review is all over the place but it kinda reflects the way the feel about the story...
September 7, 2019
"No Time for Love" is the story of Lorna and Khalid.
Our heroine is an English nurse, recuperating from an illness when she decides to work with a Kuwaiti family. She gets the chance to take care of a child, Amina and befriends the mother, a young female named Dana trapped in a unhappy marriage. As she meets Dana's philandering husband Khalil, obnoxious brother Khalid and realizes that Dana is in love with her brother Allan, who works in Kuwait, she soon gets deeply entangled with the al Hashib family.
The book has the h fighting for her own views, woman's rights and standing up for what is right, while falling for the chauvinistic, conservative and ultra antagonistic hero. The secondary plot involves the hero's sister, heroine's brother and trying to escape a forced marriage. There is drama, angst, and very little romance overall- but all ends in a HEA. But the hero does confess his love multiple times, even though I had trouble believing he meant it the first time around.
Safe
3/5
Our heroine is an English nurse, recuperating from an illness when she decides to work with a Kuwaiti family. She gets the chance to take care of a child, Amina and befriends the mother, a young female named Dana trapped in a unhappy marriage. As she meets Dana's philandering husband Khalil, obnoxious brother Khalid and realizes that Dana is in love with her brother Allan, who works in Kuwait, she soon gets deeply entangled with the al Hashib family.
The book has the h fighting for her own views, woman's rights and standing up for what is right, while falling for the chauvinistic, conservative and ultra antagonistic hero. The secondary plot involves the hero's sister, heroine's brother and trying to escape a forced marriage. There is drama, angst, and very little romance overall- but all ends in a HEA. But the hero does confess his love multiple times, even though I had trouble believing he meant it the first time around.
Safe
3/5
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November 13, 2020HIS VIEWS ON WOMEN WERE OUT OF DATE
Lorna despised Khalid's type - men who saw women as either mistresses or chattels. She swore she'd be neither - even for the great Khalid al Hashib himself!
But she was inextricably involved in his life in Kuwait. The bonds that held her could not be severed....
Thrust against her will into the presence of this compelling man, she found her resistance fading - and all hope of happiness as well.
Lorna despised Khalid's type - men who saw women as either mistresses or chattels. She swore she'd be neither - even for the great Khalid al Hashib himself!
But she was inextricably involved in his life in Kuwait. The bonds that held her could not be severed....
Thrust against her will into the presence of this compelling man, she found her resistance fading - and all hope of happiness as well.
February 24, 2023
Old fashioned but charming even if it does borrow the same twist at the end as The Sheik.
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September 16, 2010Way different from the other mills and boons books. keeps my heart pounding
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