Duty Bound Desire

Lose yourself in this spellbinding tale of duty, desire, scandal and the power of love. After a disastrous first marriage which almost brought down his family, Crown Prince Nabil Al Massoud vowed never to marry again. However, his father's ailing health and his nation's need for a strong leader have thrust Nabil to the forefront. He must now take charge of his nation and to do that needs a suitable wife. Princess Yasmin is one of few royally trained women who will nicely fit the bill. But she is strong, intelligent and stunningly beautiful, a dangerous combination for Nabil. Yasmin is bound by duty to marry a man she hardly knows. The princess will go willingly to save her nation from the unthinkable, but she will be nobody's subordinate. Her new husband, while always respectful and careful, remains distant, keeping his word that this is a marriage of convenience only - for both of them. But between the sheets he can never truly hide his feelings and as time goes on he will be forced to face some uncomfortable truths from his past. Will he be able to finally love Yasmin as she wants to be loved? Or is she destined to live her life with civility but no emotional connection?

In this timely and enlightening new work, Mark Blitz explores the link between character and politics in liberal democracies, focusing on the importance of responsibility in American public and professional life. As the nation hotly debates the role of values and character, Duty Bound is a timely look at the importance of one of Americas classic civic virtues.

The illegitimate daughter has been brought to the desert kingdom, but she won’t play by its rules... Take this adventure to a faraway desert land, where passion burns as hot as the desert sun. Lose yourself in this tale of forbidden love and scorching passion. As the king’s right-hand-man, Mahir’s strict code of conduct has been ingrained into him since he was a child and has become a way of life. He knows his job well, and his place within the palace walls. Distance and neutrality has been his life, and the only way he can serve his king and country effectively. However, the newest member of the royal family has arrived, and having been raised in the west to a single mother the king refused to acknowledge, Farah is as bold and confident as she is beautiful. And Mahir has caught her eye. She does her utmost to fray every last strand of his self-control, but she is not his to love. Determined to ignore the intense passion Mahir feels for Farah might be harder than he at first believes, and before he knows it, the all-consuming power of their attraction will test Mahir’s iron-clad control more than he could have imagined. As the desert sun rises in the east, so does the forbidden heat that burns between them, threatening everything…

How Can Happiness Survive When Duty Clashes With Desire? Sheetal Prasad has it all: youth, beauty, wealth, and education. But when this modern Indian woman surrenders love for honor and marries into India's most glamorous "royal family," those very advantages turn against her. Meet the Dhanrajs-a powerful family bound together by a web of lies where infidelity, greed, secrets, and hidden identities lurk beneath the lush tapestry. The Dhanrajs will do whatever is necessary to mask the truth from the world. As Sheetal peels back the layers of deceit in the glittering world of Indian mega- wealth-and struggles to control her own fate-she is threatened by the rage she harbors and the blazes of passion she ignites.

Dante - The Boss - Cavallaro's wife died four years ago. On the verge of becoming the youngest head in the history of the Chicago mafia, Dante needs a new wife and Valentina was chosen for the role. Valentina lost her husband, too, but her first marriage had always been for show. When she was eighteen, she agreed to marry Antonio in order to hide the truth: that he was gay and in love with an outsider. Even after his death, she kept his secret, not only to preserve the honor of a dead man, but also to protect herself. But now that she's about to marry Dante, her castle of lies threatens to crash. Dante is only thirty-six but already feared and respected in the Familia, and he's notorious for always getting what he wants. Valentina is terrified the wedding night will reveal her secret, but her worries prove unfounded when Dante shows her the cold shoulder. Soon her fear is replaced by confusion and indignation. Valentina is tired of being ignored. She's determined to get Dante's attention and desire, even if she can't get his heart that still belongs to his dead wife.

Philosophy has strayed away from its main task of clarifying proprieties of pursuits in human- life and has got caught up in methodology, logic and Linguistics. Too much hair-splitting is done about truth, knowledge, reality and language. Our main concerns should be Duty, Beauty, Piety and Complementarity. Substantial factors of fortuity and self-earned conditions are simply not considered in political philosophy. Equality is too problematic to take it as an ethical principle. Justice is being over-emphasized than Non-violence and Prosperity (almost in vain). The disaster of scientific socialism had its roots in Marxian theory itself. Antagonistic radicalisms including radical feminism are deepening the problems than solving them. Scientism (Materialist reductionism) is under-cutting the very sense of Responsibility! Existentialist and Post-Modernist traditions are leading to nowhere and only generating despair and sense of meaninglessness. Deep-Ecology is becoming Anthropo-phobic and blocking Human progress. Religious dogmatisms and fundamentalisms cannot be fought with by merely refuting truth-claims of their beliefs. A ‘non-supernatural’ spirituology will have to earn ‘therapeutic’ success over the clutches of religions. Any pair of required factors ‘competing as well as complementary’ is a dialectical pair. Their balance has to be finely tuned and wisdom lies precisely there. One-sided thinking often destroys the balance and intensifies Evils. There is an eminent possibility of convergence towards universal humanist ethic and scope for common minimum program in spite of multitude of ethics. In short, there is a possibility of a constructive, ameliorative and reconciliatory path for humanity at this juncture of human history.