Book request: Hi all!I'm looking for a book I started a couple of months ago (probably in January before the current craziness started) and I unfortunately lost. I only had an excerpt ebook version so I can't even recall if what I read was the beginning or maybe further into the plot. I think it was the first chapter though.The heroine I believe was captured in the desert and was to be auctioned off soon. The hero saves her, possibly by buying her (?) which causes some friction between the two as they know and dislike each other. He feels obligated to protect her. I am quite sure it was not a sheikh romance! The hero was most likely from England, or much less likely from America. Unfortunately that's all I can still piece together. Would be really relieved to find it again though so any help is greatly appreciated!

Matching book description: Kidnapped, drugged, and about to be sold to the highest bidder, Desdemona Carlisle is having a hell of a time maintaining her English pride. Then she sees the man in black, galloping through the Egyptian desert on a pure white steed. Desdemona could not have conjured a more dashing savior in her wildest fantasies. But an unlikelier hero would be impossible to find: Harry B Kidnapped, drugged, and about to be sold to the highest bidder, Desdemona Carlisle is having a hell of a time maintaining her English pride. Then she sees the man in black, galloping through the Egyptian desert on a pure white steed. Desdemona could not have conjured a more dashing savior in her wildest fantasies. But an unlikelier hero would be impossible to find: Harry Braxton is a rogue, a scoundrel, and a born opportunist—who has already broken Desdemona’s heart once before. As brilliant as she is beautiful, Desdemona still hasn’t learned how to stay out of trouble—which suits Harry just fine. Running from a painful past, and rumored to be involved in nefarious endeavors, Harry will never be a proper match for Desdemona. But when she catches the eye of his cousin, the irritatingly honorable Lord Blake Ravenscroft, Harry vows to claim his one true desire, once and for all. ...more