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... ( )