The Princess Plan
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4.2 • 14 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Princes have pomp and glory—not crushes on commoners
Nothing gets the tongues of London’s high society wagging like a good scandal. And when the personal secretary of the visiting Prince Sebastian of Alucia is found murdered, it’s all anyone can talk about, including Eliza Tricklebank. Her unapologetic gossip gazette has benefited from an anonymous tip about the crime, prompting Sebastian to take an interest in playing detective—and an even greater interest in Eliza.
With a trade deal on the line and mounting pressure to secure a noble bride, there’s nothing more salacious than a prince dallying with a commoner. Sebastian finds Eliza’s contrary manner as frustrating as it is seductive, but they’ll have to work together if they’re going to catch the culprit. And when things heat up behind closed doors, it’s the prince who’ll have to decide what comes first—his country or his heart.
Don’t miss The Duke Not Taken from New York Times bestselling author Julia London! A delicious and playful new frenemies-to-lovers romance set in Victorian England.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller London (Seduced by a Scot) launches a Victorian series with the complicated romantic entanglement between Miss Eliza Tricklebank, owner of a gossipy gazette and caretaker to her elderly father, and Crown Prince Sebastian Charles Iver Chartier, destined for the throne of fictional Alucia. At 28, the self-assured and pragmatic Eliza is comfortably unmarried; she publishes the gazette with the financial backing of her widowed sister, Hollis, ignoring their father's concerns about their inappropriate pursuit. Eliza and Hollis attend a masquerade ball held in the prince's honor, fertile ground for gazette content, and soon Eliza, tipsy on rum punch, meets Sebastian, who's dodging several women who want to marry him. Eliza's perceptive nature and possession of an anonymous tip are valuable to Sebastian when his trusted aide and friend Matous Reyno is murdered, possibly by an Alucian considering rebellion; as Eliza and Sebastian pursue the killer, a cross-class romance kindles. London's observations of gender roles are keen, and her protagonists are eminently likable in their dogged pursuit of their own goals despite societal expectations and political pressures. Occasional repetition slows the story, but the romance and mystery are good enough to pull the reader through.
Customer Reviews
Delightful Friends To Lovers Story
I received an ARC of this book to read through NetGalley in exchange for a fair review. The Princess Plan by Julia London is the first book in her exciting new series A Royal Wedding.
Eliza Tricklebank is fairly settled in her life as a spinster she cares for her father and enjoys the company of her sister and her friends along with the small freedoms that come with being a spinster such as the ability to go for a walk on ones own and to be able to say what one thinks. She is excited to attend a Masquerade Ball and perhaps meeting a prince might be a fine thing and once she meets the prince perhaps a kiss would be something to savour in her old age, but then she kisses him, and somehow that’s not enough. Prince Sebastian Charles Iver Chartier, Crown Prince of Alucia and Duke of Sansonleon has come to England to forge a trade agreement for his troubled small country and as well to find a suitable bride to help cement relations between Alucia and England. He’s never before met someone who sees him a just a man, and an annoying one at that and when his secretary is murdered he feels that Eliza is one of the few people he can trust to tell him the truth and solve the murder mystery. This is a lovely friends to lovers story and I enjoyed it very much. Medium Steam. Publishing Date November 19, 2019. #NetGalley #JuliaLondon #ThePrincessPlan #HarlequinBooks #HistoricalRomance #Bookstagram