Royally Screwed (Royally, #1)

by Emma Chase

[Cocktails and Books]

This review was originally posted on Cocktails and Books

Emma Chase tackles Royalty with her brand of sexy romance.  I was excited to see what she was going to do to a Royal Family and all I can say is All Hail the Queen!  Prince Nicholas was the absolute perfect book boyfriend.  A bit of an ass, he often flip-flopped between being too good to be true or a domineering alpha.  But not matter how he was acting, it was hard not to fall for this prince who wanted someone to see him as just Nicholas.

Forced, by royal edict, to go to New York and corral his wild younger brother, Nicholas finds himself caught between a rock and a hard place.  His grandmother has determined a royal wedding needs to happen and demands he pick his bride.  What Nicholas does instead is pick up alcohol, which then leads him to venture into a bakery late at night and making a salacious offer to the woman behind the counter.  From that moment on, everything changes for Nicholas.

Olivia was trying to keep her family bakery alive while her sister went to school and her father drowned his sorrows in the bottom of a bottle.  She didn't know what to expect when a drunk, uppity Englishman came into her bakery, but she had no clue he would turn her world upside down.

Nicholas and Olivia were not looking for any kind of relationship, but they fell into one when they were inexplicably drawn to one another.  They balanced each other out and were always quick to point out when each of their crazy was starting to show.  They may not have been looking for love, but with each other, they found the type of relationship they had both seen with their parents but didn't think they'd find for themselves.  Despite Olivia not being used to the paparazzi, the aristocracy pettiness, a high-handed grandmother and a duty you were born to perform, she helped Nicholas be regular Nicholas.  Helped him realize there was more to life than duties to the crown.  And helped him understand exactly what he was willing to give up to be with the woman he loved.

Royally Screwed was sexy, cheeky and just too damn good to put down.

 

 

 

 



 

She’s even lovelier than I remembered, than I dreamed. Delicate midnight tendrils frame a face that belongs in a museum—with stunning dark sapphire eyes that should be commemorated in vibrant oils and soft watercolors. If Helen launched a thousand ships, this girl could raise a thousand hard-ons.

She’s prettily made, the top of her head coming only to my chin, but fantastically curvy. Great full tits that strain the buttons of a wrinkled white blouse, shapely hips in a black skirt tapering to a tiny waist I could wrap my hands around and toned legs encased in sheer black tights finish off the whole package very nicely.

An unfamiliar anxiousness fizzes like soda in my gut.

“The door was open,” I explain.

“It’s broken.”

Logan flicks at the lock. Security is his life, so a broken lock would annoy him like a puzzle with the final piece missing.

“What do you want?”

She has no idea who I am. It’s in the defensive way she holds herself and the accusatory note in her voice. Some women try to pretend they don’t recognize me, but I can always tell. Her ignorance is rather…thrilling. There are no expectations, no hidden agendas, no reasons to pretend—what she sees is what she gets. And all she sees is me.

My throat is suddenly a barren wasteland. I swallow, but it’s difficult.

“Well, he’s desperate for some pie.” I hook my thumb at Simon. “And I…wanted to apologize for the other evening. I don’t normally act that way. I was on a bit of bender…”

“In my experience, people don’t do things when they’re drunk that they wouldn’t do normally.”

“No, you’re right. I would’ve thought all those things, but I never would’ve said them out loud.” I move closer, slowly. “And if I’d been sober…my opening bid would’ve been much higher.”

“She crosses her arms. “Are you trying to be cute?”

“No. I don’t have to try…it just sort of happens.”

 

 



 

 



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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