In this book, which continues the series of novels “For Lovely Ladies,” the world of the inspired heroines of Denise Robins opens before readers. Sweet, ironic, passionate, reverent, her heroines strive for their uneasy happiness.*** The exotic beauty Iris Lowell lived in a remote part of Egypt in an idyllic, secluded setting. But the sudden death of her father, a very successful Egyptologist, changes everything in her life. With his last will, her father appointed the young British diplomat Stephen Deltrey as her temporary guardian, who was to take Iris to England to her aunt. Deciding to stay in her beloved home at all costs, Iris in a momentary impulse asked the mysterious Serbian prince Yuzrev to marry her... without thinking about what this might lead to. This thought has so captured the treacherous prince that he is ready to do anything, even to kill the young guardian whom Iris loved with all her heart, just to make the girl his lifelong slave...