After making a serious misjudgment about the man she was about to marry, Cara escaped to the one place she always felt safe–her family’s ranch. She wants to evade the paparazzi and hide her near disastrous mistake from her family, while she tries to figure out what’s next. In need of peace after a tumultuous year supervising the building of Castle’s first technology store, Aidan Castle escapes to … escapes to the Double L Ranch. When he enters the den, he’s shocked to find a woman sleeping in a wedding dress. Worse, he recognizes her as the beautiful socialite he kissed at Castle’s costume ball. He’d felt that night was special and when Cara left, he’d lost a little piece of his heart.
Cara has no place to go, and Aidan’s not sure he wants to kick her out. When a winter storm traps them in, their attraction and bond become undeniable. Cara opens up and Aidan can’t resist playing white knight and offering to scrub all details of her secret love life to save grace with her powerful brother. But then, he discovers secrets that make him question everything. Can he trust her?
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The Runaway Princess Bride is the third book in Lenora Worth’s Castles of Dallas series. I loved it! If you’ve read the first two you’ll definitely want to read this one. But you could read it as a stand-alone too. Whimsical and witty, I loved that it was light-hearted but with a more serious thread beneath it. Aiden is a hunk and I liked Cara as well. And I loved the ending! Very enjoyable.:)
I just love this series. Each book has a wonderful story. With each book we get a new love story, but still get to visit with our favorites from previous books. This story picks right back up where the last story left off.
Cara Lamon almost made a huge mistake to marry a con artist. Instead of dealing with the problem she runs. Runs to the one place she feels safe, Double L Ranch. What she doesn’t realize is her con artist is not done with her yet.
Aidan has been working hard to open the new technology store for Castle’s department stores. Instead of renting an apartment, Nico has been letting him stay at his family’s ranch. The peace and quiet have been soothing, that is until he comes in one night to find Cara, Nico’s sister, on the couch face down crying and drunk. Aidan hasn’t seen her since she kissed and ran from him, claiming to be engaged. But when Aidan finds the reason why she is there, he is quick to be her knight in shining armor. But can he trust her? Can he save the Castle name from another scandal?
I absolutely love the characters in this series. Each one has a wonderful personality and are fun and loving individuals. They are loyal and strong-minded. They each have a hearts of gold. And their stories of romance are such sweet ones.
Overall the book is wonderful and sweet. The perfect mix of romance and humor with some good little twists mixed in. Halllmark movies in the making, are what these books are. I hate to see the series come to an end, but all the main characters are wrapped up in this last book. Interested to see if another book will be released and who it would involve. I would classify this series as a cozy romance. So if you are looking for a book with a tad bit action and butterflies in your tummy romance, then this book is for you.
Fun book. Aidan Castle is ready for some peace and quiet after a busy few months getting Castle’s newest store up and running. The pure technology store is his baby, and he wants everything to be just right. Staying at his friend and future brother-in-law’s ranch while he does so is just the escape that Aidan needs. That is until he comes home one night to find Cara asleep on the sofa, wearing a wedding dress of all things. He’s reminded of the night of the Castle costume ball, where he and Cara shared some pretty smoking kisses before she fled.
Cara barely escaped making a disastrous mistake. After falling for what seemed like the perfect man, she discovered he was nothing but a con man. To avoid the paparazzi and decide what to do next, she fled to the family ranch. Cara is determined to keep her troubles secret from her family, at least until after her brother’s wedding. The last person she expected to see was Aidan.
I enjoyed that first meeting between Aidan and Cara. Neither was particularly happy to see the other, as those earlier kisses still burned in their memories. But when Aidan finds out about Cara’s problem, he insists on helping her. Aidan’s computer geek tendencies come in handy as he works to protect Cara and help her bring Trey down. Though the attraction between them grows stronger, both of them have some serious trust issues. I got very frustrated with Cara a few times because she withheld information from Aidan that he really needed to have. Aidan senses there are things she doesn’t tell him, and those omissions make him wonder if he can trust her.
As they spend more time together, both Cara and Aidan realize that their hearts are involved, but neither one is ready to take that final leap. Cara’s brother’s wedding grows closer, and her family’s arrival adds complications to the plans to stop Trey. I understood Cara’s reservations about confessing to her brother, Nico, but I also felt that she likely overdramatized his reaction. The ensuing conversation was eye-opening for Cara but did nothing to change her mind about protecting him from her mistakes. I had to laugh at her machinations to carry out her plan. Because Aidan knows her so well by this point, he is one step ahead of her. I loved the final confrontation as Cara wreaked her own havoc on Trey. Aidan’s arrival with backup was perfectly timed and provided a fitting end.
I loved the ending. Aidan and Cara finally get past all of their issues by actually being honest with each other. The epilogue is a fun wrap-up.
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The Runaway Princess Bride is the third part of the Castles of Dallas trilogy. This story focuses on Cara Lamon, sister of Nico Lamon, and Aidan Castle, Eleanor Lamon’s stepbrother. Cara has runaway to hide at the Lamon ranch after realizing that her fiance had conned her out of Lamon Foundation funds and was intending to use her to get even more. Aidan discovers in her wedding gown at the ranch and realizes that she is in trouble. He offers to help her avoid a major scandal before their siblings wedding. Trust is a big issue for both of them and working through Cara’s problems give them the opportunity to get to know each other.
There is just something about a book/series that is based around where you live yourself. It makes that book since a little extra more especially when the author gets the facts correct on the real parts and makes the imagined parts almost fit into places you have either been to (Neimans) or worked at for 20+ years (Sanger Harris/Foley’s Dept Store). Yes, Castles is not a real place but to me it is almost real because it is a mix of where I spent my retail years and where I used to spend my Holidays looking at the catalog or what little time I had free checking out their displays in downtown Dallas.
This book is the third book in the series and Aidan could in a way be my own husband. How weird this author is almost tapped into my life in a low rent way. Yes my hubs ran the electronic department in the same retail store and is a computer wiz like Aidan. Now Cara well here we have a woman who is searching for love to the point that she gets taken by a con-man but does she realize it before she marries him? Cara has a heart as big as the state of Texas and that is where she runs to hide and heal and of course wait for her brother’s wedding. This book is different from the first two books in the series…it has more of a mystery to it and that is a good thing for me. I am looking forward to more books from this author and hopefully more based in the DFW area.
I totally enjoyed reading Runaway Princess Bride by Lenora Worth, book three in The Castles of Dallas series. Cara escaped what could have been a major mistake fleeing to her family’s Texas ranch. She was determined to hide this from her family, not disrupt her brother’s upcoming wedding and figure out how what’s next for her. Unfortunately for her, Aiden Castle was also staying at the ranch as he oversaw the building of Castle’s first technology store. These two seem to push each other’s buttons, especially after earlier sharing kisses at Castle’s costume ball. Add in a Texas snowstorm that traps these two at the ranch and see what fireworks they create as they discover an attraction to each other and a need to solve Cara’s troubles.
Ms. Worth wrote a wonderful and moving story that is not to be missed. It had me laughing, crying and everything in between. This story is filled with sexual chemistry, fun dialogue, and endearing characters. I highly recommend this book to other readers and look forward to the next book in the series.
I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.
Cara has run away from the alter of a secret wedding after finding out her groom was a con man. The only safe place to run would be her family ranch, the Double L, never expecting to find Aidan Castle. Aidan and Cara shared a kiss a while back, only to find out she was taken. Now both are at the ranch during a freak snowstorm, and they can not deny the chemistry between them. But Cara is not telling the whole truth, can Aidan trust her?
This is a fast paced story that I thoroughly enjoyed. Great characters and dialogue. This is the third and last book in the series, but can be read as a stand alone. I’m sorry to say goodbye to the Castles!