The Winds of Love — Virginia Myers

How could she resist the opportunity of a lifetime? Aunt Meg, an old family friend, had invited her to explore the Nile and Upper Egypt, a chance Trudy Faraday would have welcomed at another time. This time she planned to go alone. But once again her strong-willed mother had won: with Aunt Meg as chaperone, she would keep Trudy at a safe distance from Khaled al-Kazary, the handsome Egyptian she had loved from the first moment they met as students in the United States. The man she secretly planned to marry.

But Aunt Meg seemed to understand. Trudy's real problem was an unexpected member of their traveling party: Meg's stepson Ron Palmer, a collector of people and fortunes. Trudy was prepared to hate Ron and all he represented, and was totally unprepared for the sheer physical magnetism of the man, the animal grace with which he commanded not only Meg's life... but also her own! How dare he try to come between them! And now that Ron had invited Khaled to accompany them up the Nile, would he try to sabotage the Egyptian's future with Trudy, even while kindling this strange yearning in her confused heart?

Hero: Ron Palmer
Heroine: Trudy Faraday