FICTION

A Family Affair

by Fern Michaels
Kensington. May 2014. 272p. ISBN 9780758284945. $25; ebk. ISBN 9781617732966. F
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When Trisha Holiday, a dancer at a Las Vegas casino, collapses in the parking lot after work, Prince Malik Mohammed's staff nurse her through the flu. The handsome student from Dubai has fallen for the dancer but never dreams he can marry for love since his father has picked out a bride for him. All this changes when his father dies and Malik becomes the new sheik; he is now able to marry the woman he wants: Trish. The couple live a charmed life for the next four years, but Trish feel sorry for her sister, dumped for a trophy wife, and Malik has a secret that threatens to change everything about their life in Dubai. Trish's failure to have a child could also jeopardize her royal life, but she's convinced she can still help her sister. Michaels (author of the "Sisterhood" series) turns Trish's fairy tale into a story about family.
VERDICT This simplistic romance contains characters whose actions seem juvenile and out of an earlier time period (the adult heroine giggles and smokes when under duress; the hero, a man with a PhD, uses phrases such as, "Oh golly, Miss Molly"). Will appeal only to Michaels's faithful fans or teenagers reading their first romance.
Reviewed by Lesa Holstine, Evansville Vanderburgh P.L., IN , May 02, 2014
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