Emma
Chase, New
York Times
bestselling author of the Tangled Series & Legal Briefs Series,
returns with the first of three sizzling standalone books about a
family of racy, irresistible Royals.
Nicholas
Arthur Frederick Edward Pembrook, Crowned Prince of Wessco, aka “His
Royal Hotness”, is wickedly charming, devastatingly handsome, and
unabashedly arrogant—hard not to be when people are constantly
bowing down to you.
Then,
one snowy night in Manhattan, the prince meets a dark haired beauty
who doesn’t bow down. Instead, she throws a pie in his face.
Nicholas
wants to find out if she tastes as good as her pie, and this heir
apparent is used to getting what he wants.
***
Dating
a prince isn’t what waitress Olivia Hammond ever imagined it would
be.
There’s
a disapproving queen, a wildly inappropriate spare heir, relentless
paparazzi, and brutal public scrutiny. While they’ve traded in
horse drawn carriages for Rolls Royces and haven’t chopped anyone’s
head off lately—the royals are far from accepting of this commoner.
But
to Olivia—Nicholas is worth it.
***
Nicholas
grew up with the whole world watching, and now Marriage Watch is in
full force. In the end, Nicholas has to decide who he is, but more
importantly, who he wants to be: a King... or the man who gets to
love Olivia forever.
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EXCERPT
“I
have a plan.”
We’re
in the library of the suite. Nicholas is behind the desk, his hair
falling still damp over his forehead from a recent shower, while
James and Tommy stand near the windows.
“Take
off your clothes,” I say, dropping a stuffed backpack at my feet.
He
stands, giving me a curious, dimple-flashing smile that makes my
stomach tingle.
“I
like this plan.”
He
pulls his shirt over his head—and at the sight of that gorgeous
chest and ripped abs, I have to close my mouth to stop the flow of
drool.
“Should
I send the lads to their room?” he asks.
I toss him a Beastie Boys T-shirt and ripped jeans from the backpack.
“They can stay—I’ll get to them in a second.”
Nicholas
puts on the outfit, his disguise for the day. I hold up a thick gold
chain with a dangling cross, and he dips his head so I can loop it
over his neck. Then I squirt gel into my hand and reach up on tiptoes
to rub it through his hair—mussing it at the top and slicking the
sides.
Perfect.
“Do you know how to drive a
motorcycle?”
“Yes.”
“Excellent.”
I pull a helmet with a full, tinted face shield out of the backpack
and hold it up. “Marty’s bike is downstairs. He said to tell you:
break it, you bought…a Ducati.”
Logan
steps into the room from where he was stationed just outside the
door, lifting his hand, like a traffic cop. “Hold on, now—”
Nicholas
takes the helmet. “It’ll be fine, Logan.”
“And,”
I say cautiously, turning to the three big, strong,
probably-have-a-license-to-kill boys. “I want Nicholas and me to go
on this outing alone. You guys stay here.”
“Jesus,
Mary and Joseph.” Tommy says.
James
makes the sign of the cross.
Logan
takes another route. “No fuckin’ way. Not possible.”
But
the look on Nicholas’s face says it’s definitely possible.
“No,”
Logan insists again, his voice straining with a faint hint of
desperation.
“I
have an itinerary.” I take the sealed envelope out of the backpack
and hand it to Logan. “I wrote everything down for you, just in
case—exactly where we’ll be, every minute.” When he starts to
tear it open I put my hand on his. “You can’t open it until after
we’re gone—it’ll ruin the surprise. But I promise it will be
all right. I swear on my life.”
My
eyes drift from Logan to Nicholas. “Trust me.”
And
I want him to—so much. I want to do this for him, give him
something he hasn’t had. Something he’ll remember always:
freedom.
Nicholas
looks at the helmet, then at Logan. “What’s the worst that could
happen?”
“Ah…you
could get assassinated and the three of us will hang for treason.”
“Don’t
be silly,” Nicholas scoffs. “We haven’t hung anyone in years.”
He smacks Logan’s back. “It’d be the firing squad.”
Emma Chase is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the hot and hilarious Tangled series and The Legal Briefs series. Emma lives in New Jersey with her husband, two children and two naughty (but really cute) dogs. She has a long-standing love/hate relationship with caffeine.
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