David can't believe it when he finds out that his less than perfect son has dumped his more than perfect girlfriend two days before Valentine's. When David secretly tries to make up for some of the unkind circumstance, things don't go exactly as planned, but hardly for the worse.
A "Delights" novel Part of the Kobekistan universe
The first of 12 books about life in a 21st century Arab country where the old laws of concubinage and slavery still apply. David Ransome has lived in England since he was four, and is a post-graduate student at Oxford University when his grandfather and uncle die, and he inherits the throne of the Emirate of Kobekistan. Read how an easy-going ordinary English young man is transformed by power into a cruel autocratic Emir who is capable of having an annoying concubine strangled.
When Sister Gabrielle notices that one of her students is troubled, the young teacher at the all girl's Catholic high school attempts to get to the bottom of it. After all, one reason she became a nun and teacher was to help others. However, a communication misunderstanding between her and Cara Doyle, the student, sets a series of events in motion that has the nun breaking her vows and questioning everything she believes in.