Countless women would be thrilled to marry King Matteo de la Cruz. Yet his brilliant personal assistant Livia flat-out refuses his proposal...and then quits! Matteo is outraged, then intrigued...can anything make his ideal queen reconsider?
Livia has loved Matteo since he plucked her from the gutter as a teenager. Wearing his crown, yet not having his heart, would be unbearable. Still, their mind-blowing kiss makes innocent Livia long for his touch. If she surrenders to their desire just once, will she be able to say goodbye for good?
Millie Adams considers herself amix of Anne Shirley (loquacious but charming and willing to break a slate overa boy’s head if need be) and Charlotte Doyle (a lady at heart but with thespirit to become a mutineer should the occasion arise). Millie lives in a smallhouse on the edge of the woods, which allows her to escape in the wayshe loves best—in the pages of a book. She loves intense alpha heroes and thewomen who dare to go toe-to-toe with them.