Reviewed by Lisa Miller for Readers' Favorite

"The Royal Sheikh" is a classic story of fantasy and fiction. Sheikh Rafiq Kahil is known as the "Playboy Prince". He is the ideal guy for many of the ladies in Arabia; he has the looks, intelligence and the cash to attract many women. Claire McKay is a self-sufficient architect intern with the goal to become a partner with her employer's architect firm. Both of them meet at an art collection and things take quite a turn. Their meeting starts off on a bumpy greeting, when Claire becomes suspicious of Rafiq's generosity. Rafiq is also suspicious of Claire when he thinks she is like most women he has known, for instance a gold-digger and a bimbo. Claire and Rafiq become amazed at how this relationship can become the best and the worst of their imaginations.

I liked reading this story. I could not stop reading until I finished the book. The author Katheryn Lane gives vivid details of the main characters, Rafiq and Claire. The author also makes the reader imagine all the amenities of living in Arabic royalty and of the Arabic culture and customs. I think this book is a great romantic story of how a charming, tanned and handsome prince realizes that not any woman, including a Princess, is the desire of a prince, and that the characteristics of a person should be the most important factor in deciding what is the right status of becoming a princess to a prince in marriage.