Royal Date (The Royals of Monterra, #1)

by Sariah Wilson

This Cinderella didn’t plan on a prince...

Kat MacTaggart is a girl who has a plan for everything—including her holiday ski trip to Monterra with her best friend. Everything is going according to plan until she finds herself careening out of control down a mountainside and being rescued by a guy who looks like Superman’s hotter Italian cousin.

HRH Prince Nico is intrigued by the woman he saved on the slopes and her refusal to date him. He offers Kat a deal—let him show her his country and he’ll pay her to write articles that will help Monterra’s tourism industry. Kat agrees, but given her past and lingering distrust of men, she has one condition—absolutely no kissing.

Thanks to the claims of a jealous British noblewoman and the schemes of a meddling paparazzo, Kat’s rule doesn’t seem to be a problem at first. But the more Kat gets to know Nico and the people around him, the harder it is to remember her keep-your-distance plan. Should she stick to it or risk everything for a chance at happily ever after?

• ISBN10: 1517308828
• ISBN13: 9781517308827
• Publish Date: 3 March 2015
• Publish Status: Active
• Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 258
• Language: English

Reviews

[Heather]

Okay, okay, you are definitely going to have to suspend some disbelief to read this series. But you should do it because it is a fun one and how many contemporary romances do you find where the heroine refuses to even kiss?

Kat is a graduate student who is spending the Christmas vacation with her wealthy roommate at a ski resort in Europe. It is a bit of a break for her before she heads back to finish up her Master's degree for which she just found her her research project has been defunded. She's not in the mood for some guy to start trying to chat her up while she's reading.

Later that day she mistakenly gets off the beginner slope and has an accident. She is helped by the man she rebuffed and sent to the hospital. When she is fully awake a few days later she realizes that she was rescued by the Crown Prince of the small country they are in and that she is recuperating in the palace. Her roommate, Lemon, is making plans to help the family with their social media presence for her marketing thesis. The prince's younger sisters have decided to adopt her. She can't just take off.

Nico is intrigued by this woman who prefers playing with his sisters to the trappings of royal life. He just needs to get past all the walls she's put up to protect her feelings.

[sstaley]

Royal Date by Sariah Wilson has turned out to be one of my favorite reads of 2015. I started reading this New Adult, Contemporary Clean Romance and I couldn't put it down. I didn't want to put it down. The story is just that engaging and clever that you just want to keep reading until the very end.

Main character Kat MacTaggart is smart, beautiful, and has a mind of her own, even despite her hard background growing up. She has decided that she is done with men, even if they are good looking and rich. Her first meeting with the handsome Nico is full of witty dialogue that makes you smile. You also can't help but fall for Prince Nico right along with Kat.

Kat,along with her sassy, southern best friend Lemon end up staying with Nico's family after Kat's skiing accident. I loved how the author portrayed the royal family from the fictional European country of Monterra. They were not overly stuffy, but very accepting of the woman who had stolen their elder son's heart. I especially loved the relationship formed between Kat and Nico's youngest sister.

This romance has no sex, but it does have some heavy sexual tension between Kat and Nico and some drool worthy kissing scenes. This is a modern fairy tale that makes you want to believe in romance and happy endings, but it still takes the whole book for this to happen. It's not all happiness and roses as there is another story line with Nico's younger sister and a drug problem. It is all handled very well though.

This Cinderella-style Romance is fluffy, has a very hot Prince, and is such a fun, easy read. If you like a good fairy tale that will sweep you off of your feet, this is the book for you.