A Winter Wedding Night Dream

In this entertaining historical mystery series, the daughter of Romeo and Juliet (yes, really!) deserves a royally romantic wedding night, but the witty, irreverent Rosie must dodge battling relatives and wander lost before she gets her happy ending . . .

For the record—this masquerade was Cal’s idea. Cal is Escalus the younger, prince of Verona. The good news: this morning I, Rosie Montague, married him in front of cheering crowds. The bad news: it’s the winter solstice, a blinding snowstorm blankets Verona, and when Cal suggests I escape from the crowded palace to rendezvous with him at a nearby inn, I gleefully don a disguise.

As I venture through the dark streets, I’m lost. When I find the inn, instead of my eager new husband, I discover it houses three hungry bears, a troupe of seven acrobatic dwarves, a woodworker and his singing cricket, and a lovelorn prince (a different one!) clutching a shoe.

I trust Cal will find me, but meanwhile, someone needs to balance the scales between reality and fairytale. Who better than I, newly anointed Princess Rosaline and the woman voted most likely to think herself smarter than everyone else? All I have to do is cook for the crowd, not get eaten, and eventually my prince will . . . well, you know.