A
THOROUGHLY MODERN
PRINCESS is a tender love story in which a pampered princess decides to
try the
commoner’s life in an unprecedented way. Princess Emmaline has
enjoyed a
stolen night with Granger Lockwood IV and only days before her wedding
to
Prince Remi of Buiron, she discovers she must hide quite the secret
from her
future bridegroom. What is a pregnant princess to do when she
realizes she
doesn’t love the man she must spend the rest of her life with?
Run away,
of course!
Granger
Lockwood has
decided he no longer wants to work for his dictatorial grandfather at
Lockwood
Enterprises, a company his grandfather rules over with the proverbial
iron
hand. The hero decides he would like to ‘make it on his own’ and
starts
out with barely four thousand dollars in his pocket and to his
name. The
princess arrives on his doorstep unexpectedly. A day later,
stunned by
her news that she will bear his child, he’s out searching for work and
an
economical place to live for the first time in his life.
A
THOROUGHLY MODERN
PRINCESS is an enjoyable romp through the streets of
New York
City and the
fictitious
kingdom of
Verdunia, from the
fashionable
upper sides to the poverty-stricken lower sides. Princess
Emmaline is a
woman struggling to deal with her self-imposed exile from the royal
palaces of
Verdunia. Granger becomes her solace in a time of need but can he
come to
terms that a royal personage has attached herself to him and that she
is
pregnant with his baby? Wendy Corsi Staub’s novel is a fast,
lighthearted
read, perfect for those days when life is hectic or the reader wants to
take a
book to the beach.
Reviewed by
Aurora Rose Lynn for The Road to Romance
January 11,
2004
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