I don't like all of the books in the series but this one was fairly charming with a romance author who meets a prince. He helps her get her mojo back and she poses as his fiancee to help him look more stable. That... is about the crux of the story. I feel like a review of a book I liked should be longer but I just enjoyed getting to see Alice and Lucas's relationship grow.
At the end of the last book in the series, Princess Emma was fleeing her arranged marriage. She didn't leave the Prince at the altar but it was darn close. While fleeing, she hops on board a houseboat and hides not realizing the boat belongs to Jackson Walker, rock star extraordinaire. She recognizes him from a charity they did together and he also recognizes her.
Known as the Royal Hottie, Phillip Roarke is the second oldest in the royal family of Villeroy, an island kingdom off the coast of France. He is not at all amused to be conscripted into a mad scheme of his new sister-in-law to help bring commerce to their island. She wants to open up a high-end spa and to get the word out as well as raise some money, she has put together a bachelor auction made up of Phillip and his other unmarried brothers and puts the word out to some of her wealthy former hair clients.
Clara Abernathy grew up in foster and group homes. She's not anxious to lose the ties she has to the Bennett family through her best friend and former boss, Nate. Even if Blake Bennett is the hottest guy she knows. But she is also reluctant because her new boss is looking for any gossip he can get about the family and he's pressuring her.
In previous books, it's been noted that Alice Bennett has a crush on one of her brother's friends. In this story, we get to meet the man, Nate. She's felt that she won't have a chance because his life's goal is a job that will take him to England. But when his job doesn't come through as a result of nepotism, he realizes that maybe the woman he's never been able to consider is suddenly more available to him.
When Christopher Bennett's sisters recommend Victoria Hensley, he is quick to figure out that he is being set up. But he doesn't really care. Victoria is gorgeous and the young sister she has brought to their first meeting is adorable. He is astounded to learn that Victoria has taken on raising her three siblings after her parents' death. And anyone who's read the Bennett Family series knows that love of family is a major part of what makes them tick.
Best friends from 9 to 13, Max Bennett and Emilia Campbell are reunited when Max needs some rehabilitation after a skydiving accident. Emilia works at the prestigious center Max goes to. Seeing each other after all that time, it seems like their feelings have hardly changed. Even though Max is now working for his family's company which his brothers and sister built from the ground up. And Emilia is dealing with her beloved grandmother's Alzheimer's.
Pippa Bennett has been matchmaking her family. But now it's her turn. And, seeing Eric Callahan at her brother's wedding has her agreeing with her sister's assessment of tall, dark, and handsome.
Logan Bennett knows that his family is conspiring to set him up with his soon-to-be-sister-in-law's best friend, Nadine Hawthorne. And he's not averse. She's a lovely woman.
Sebastian Bennett has a strict rule against fraternizing with his employees. It's part of what has made his company so successful- the company he built from the ground up after his parents sold the family ranch. But he succeeded and Bennett Enterprises and their jewelry is well known. He is, in fact, not up for relationships in general. He's seen his parents' marriage work through 9 kids and wants something more like what they have than the empty promises of women after his money.
Caine MacGregor has yet to be impressed by Diana Blade. She's the sister of the man who is about to marry Caine's sister but she sure doesn't act like it. Gorgeous, but cold, she acts nothing like anyone he's ever known.
Teagan has just had her job cut due to budget cuts. And, in true trope fashion, she arrives home to find her fiance, the man she's been with for seven years, in bed with another woman. Packing up her life into her Prius, she is trying not to make the day even worse when she rear ends a car. An expensive car. An expensive car carrying three years in a row Sexiest Bachelor Corbin Lane. But she is confused that he doesn't seem very upset, instead, he has a proposition.
I got the second book in this series, made it half-way through and realized I wanted to start from the beginning. Even with the nausea-inducing reading caused by an ebook that wasn't well-edited (nothing I did would make all of the font stay on one page so I had to keep flipping back and forth), this was a decent story. I misjudged the murderer because I relied too much on the "Thin Man" movies that the characters are based off of.