Princess Harriet Wesselbach is growing tired of her pampered, privileged lifestyle. The only thing worse than the gilded cage of a royal life is the overprotective nature of her brother, the crown prince.
When the palace is suddenly thrown into turmoil, Harriet takes the opportunity to run away and branch out on her own. After all, how hard could it be to live not as a royal, but as an ordinary … ordinary young lady?
Harriet wants to stand on her own two feet, and she is determined that nothing will get in her way. Especially not a chance encounter with a handsome stranger.
The last thing Jacob Lauer needs or wants to do is play nanny to a spoiled princess.
But that’s exactly what he finds himself having to do.
From the moment he meets her, she is nothing but trouble, and what should have been an easy assignment is turning out to be more difficult than he had bargained for.
Not least because the longer he spends in Harriet’s company, the more difficult it is to hide his growing attraction to the lady.
When Harriet’s safety is threatened, Jacob must put aside all his conflicting feelings and concentrate on the job at hand.
Will he be able to ignore his heart, when he’s protecting the princess?
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Quarantine is no joke. It has messed with my ability to focus and desire to read. All I want to do is escape, yet I couldn’t seem to. Enter Nadine Millard and her new book! Finally a story I can immerse myself in and just ENJOY! I loved Harriet and Jacob. I loved the idea of Harriet wanting to run away from royal life (like Jasmine from Aladdin!) Jacob and his protectiveness was just super attractive. The story flowed and I totally lost myself in it. I finally escaped.
Harriet Liezel Farago Wesselbach, Crown Princess of Aldonia is a pampered, selfish, impulsive young lady who is absolutely clueless as to the perils that face a young woman outside the palace grounds and her overprotective brother, the heir to the throne, is driving her mad with the way he runs her life. When an assassination attempt is made on her father’s life (the king), her brother orders her to England to stay with their younger brother & his wife. She doesn’t want to go and comes up with a plan to escape to a cottage on Winter Castle grounds, a two day trip away, but she would be on her own and would leave a note for her brother to find we her maid discovers her absence. It doesn’t take Harriet long to realize she should have planned her escape a little better.
Prince Christopher knows something is up with Harriet as she acquiesced to his order of her going to England too easily. He contacted one of his close soldiers whe has been doing spy work for him and ordered him to follow his sister to see what she does when she leaves the palace. Jacob Lauer is a spy and a good one and now the prince wants him to become a nanny to his sister. The moment they meet, Jacob rescues her from a drunk trying to accost her and the adventures just keep coming. He is being paid to do a job and must protect her but this is the harder than any spy mission he has been on in the past.
Harriet give Jacob a fake name so he doesn’t know who she is and even though he knows who she is, he doesn’t tell her he is working for or his true reason for helping her. The funny and dangerous situations Harriet finds herself in and the sneaky way Jacob just appears to help is so much fun. After spending time together, Jacob discovers that Harriet is no longer an assignment – he really cares about her and wants more but know his position as a commoner would never work. Harriet learns a lot about herself in her time away from her privileged life – she can pick berries, try to catch fish, can stand up for herself and can fall in love with a man she just met. I highly recommend this book and it is the perfect “getaway” from all the isolation, etc. as it is a humorous story with a wonderful couple that give you a lot of laughs and makes you sigh and smile when you read the end!
I was gifted the Advanced Reader Copy of this book & all opinions are my own & have been voluntarily given.