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Hana Sheik | 20 Questions: TEMPTATION IN ISTANBUL
Author Guest / May 24, 2022

1–What is the title of your latest release? My next Harlequin Romance (Mills & Boon True Love) is TEMPTATION IN ISTANBUL. It’s out May 12th (UK) and May 24th (North America). In other words, it’s right around the corner! 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? Billionaire and single dad Faisal shares one thing in common with his young daughter’s nanny, Maryan: their powerful mutual attraction. Two weeks together in his home in Istanbul, Turkey tempts their jaded hearts into trying love again. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? Wellllll… I wrote the first draft back in December 2018, and I had a completely different setting then. So, when I revisited that first draft in November 2020, I knew the first thing that had to change was the setting. It wasn’t speaking to me. And then I thought of Turkey, and the pieces of the story fit together. My characters are Somali, and there’s a growing population of Somali tourists who have been visiting Turkey the last few years. On top of that, I’d been meaning to go to Istanbul in Spring of 2020, but my vacation was put on hold because of…