ROYALLY
SCREWED
Emma Chase
Release
Day: October 18, 2016
Emma Chase, New York Times bestselling author of the
Tangled Series & Legal Briefs Series, returns with the first of three
sizzling standalone books about a family of racy, irresistible Royals.
Nicholas Arthur Frederick Edward Pembrook, Crowned Prince of
Wessco, aka “His Royal Hotness”, is wickedly charming, devastatingly handsome,
and unabashedly arrogant—hard not to be when people are constantly bowing down
to you.
Then, one snowy night in Manhattan, the prince meets a dark
haired beauty who doesn’t bow down. Instead, she throws a pie in his face.
Nicholas wants to find out if she tastes as good as her pie,
and this heir apparent is used to getting what he wants.
***
Dating a prince isn’t what waitress Olivia Hammond ever
imagined it would be.
There’s a disapproving queen, a wildly inappropriate spare
heir, relentless paparazzi, and brutal public scrutiny. While they’ve traded in
horse drawn carriages for Rolls Royces and haven’t chopped anyone’s head off
lately—the royals are far from accepting of this commoner.
But to Olivia—Nicholas is worth it.
***
Nicholas grew up with the whole world watching, and now
Marriage Watch is in full force. In the end, Nicholas has to decide who he is,
but more importantly, who he wants to be: a King... or the man who gets to love
Olivia forever.
“I have a
plan.”
We’re in the
library of the suite. Nicholas is behind the desk, his hair falling still damp
over his forehead from a recent shower, while James and Tommy stand near the
windows.
“Take off
your clothes,” I say, dropping a stuffed backpack at my feet.
He stands,
giving me a curious, dimple-flashing smile that makes my stomach tingle.
“I like this
plan.”
He pulls his
shirt over his head—and at the sight of that gorgeous chest and ripped abs, I
have to close my mouth to stop the flow of drool.
“Should I
send the lads to their room?” he asks.
I toss him a Beastie Boys T-shirt and ripped
jeans from the backpack. “They can stay—I’ll get to them in a second.”
Nicholas
puts on the outfit, his disguise for the day. I hold up a thick gold chain with
a dangling cross, and he dips his head so I can loop it over his neck. Then I
squirt gel into my hand and reach up on tiptoes to rub it through his
hair—mussing it at the top and slicking the sides.
Perfect.
“Do you know how to drive a motorcycle?”
“Yes.”
“Excellent.”
I pull a helmet with a full, tinted face shield out of the backpack and hold it
up. “Marty’s bike is downstairs. He said to tell you: break it, you bought…a
Ducati.”
Logan steps
into the room from where he was stationed just outside the door, lifting his
hand, like a traffic cop. “Hold on, now—”
Nicholas
takes the helmet. “It’ll be fine, Logan.”
“And,” I say
cautiously, turning to the three big, strong, probably-have-a-license-to-kill
boys. “I want Nicholas and me to go on this outing alone. You guys stay here.”
“Jesus, Mary
and Joseph.” Tommy says.
James makes
the sign of the cross.
Logan takes
another route. “No fuckin’ way. Not possible.”
But the look
on Nicholas’s face says it’s definitely possible.
“No,” Logan
insists again, his voice straining with a faint hint of desperation.
“I have an itinerary.” I take the
sealed envelope out of the backpack and hand it to Logan. “I wrote everything
down for you, just in case—exactly where we’ll be, every minute.” When he
starts to tear it open I put my hand on his. “You can’t open it until after
we’re gone—it’ll ruin the surprise. But I promise it will be all right. I swear
on my life.”
My eyes
drift from Logan to Nicholas. “Trust me.”
And I want
him to—so much. I want to do this for him, give him something he hasn’t had.
Something he’ll remember always: freedom.
Nicholas
looks at the helmet, then at Logan. “What’s the worst that could happen?”
“Ah…you
could get assassinated and the three of us will hang for treason.”
“Don’t be
silly,” Nicholas scoffs. “We haven’t hung anyone in years.” He smacks Logan’s
back. “It’d be the firing squad.”
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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