Bella Balfour, fashion icon and wild child, is not enjoying herself. Her father has sent her to the middle of nowhere – it must be to punish her for her scandalous behaviour. She has to get back to civilisation! So Bella steals a horse and heads for the nearest city: the sheikhdom of Al-Rafid. Bella finds herself trapped in the desert with devastatingly gorgeous Sheikh Zafiq Al-Rafid and, on a whim, pretends to be an anonymous, everyday girl.