Sometimes a book comes along that just makes me happy and makes me remember why I love the genre of contemporary romance so much and Royally Screwed by Emma Chase is just that book. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
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.
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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.
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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.
Review copy provided for an honest review
I am GIDDY, flat out GIDDY and suffering from a major book hangover after finishing Royally 
Screwed by Emma Chase. THIS is everything I want in a romance; it is fun and flirty, it is serious and emotional, and there is enough conflict to make it interesting, but not so much I want to curl up in a ball and cry my eyes out and best of all it has a freakin’ fabulous ending.
After being told by his grandmother, the Queen, Prince Nicholas Pembrook, has 5 months to choose a wife and to get his younger brother straightened out. A trip to New York has Nicholas meeting a struggling waitress/coffee shop owner trying to keep her family’s business afloat. Olivia Hammond has no clue who the handsome but insufferable a$$ is that makes several indecent proposals late one evening in her family’s store, but she soon finds out and her little word is turned upside down by a Prince who charms her in more ways than one.
From the very start of this book, I fell completely and hopelessly in love with not only with the charming and burdened Nicholas despite his sometimes inappropriate mouth, but also with the sassy, hard working, speaks her mind Olivia and when these two are together the sparks coming off of them would no doubt keep his kingdom of Wessco lit up for decades to come.
Ms. Chase did an excellent job of showing their lust turn to love and each moment they spent together from the sexy ones to the sweet ones to the everyday ones was special and thoroughly engaging. It was impossible to put this book down and I loved every minute of it.
Sometimes a book comes along that just makes me happy and makes me remember why I love the genre of contemporary romance so much and Royally Screwed by Emma Chase is just that book.
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“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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Thanks Slick for the review