Reluctantly Royal

Reluctantly Royal by Nichole Chase

Maxwell Jameson Trevor, prince of Lilaria, hates his royal role. Despising the limelight, he takes solace in his art studio and steers clear of any drama. But when one of the newly discovered royals passes away, Maxwell's brother Alex asks him to break the news to the old man's granddaughter. Though he hates to be the bearer of doom and gloom, he doesn't want the poor girl to find out from the tabloids. For Maxwell knows all too well how devastating that could be.

Coming from a broken home and modest background, newly ordained Lady Meredith Thysmer has seized her chance to make a better life for herself and her son. She's not afraid to use her best assets to get what she wants. But when the unpretentious yet devastatingly handsome Max delivers his news, her plans for the future come crashing to a halt. In the challenging days ahead, Max's compassion, humor, and steadfast loyalty to Meredith and her son win her over. She quickly finds herself doing something she swore would never happen again: falling in love. And yet Maxwell still refuses to completely drop his guard. Somehow Meredith's got to find a way to seduce this reluctant royal.**

Prince Max would love to stay in the shadows. He leaves as much of the public life of being a royal to his brother and sister. It freaks him out. He has his reasons why he likes to avoid it but it's not something he can always avoid. While he was in London he was tasked with finding the granddaughter of a newly appointed royal family and let her know that her grandfather had died. Something about Lady Meredith makes him want to push his own set boundaries.  He's seeing a life that he never though that he'd want or that he want to put on to someone else. 

Lady Meredith doesn't understand why the royal family wants to help her so much. She's always had to take care of things herself. Her father hasn't ever been there in a fatherly sort of way. That was always her grandfather and now he was gone. She was devastated and so was her son. Now she has Prince Max there at every turn, offering his services and his family is sending people to help. Its odd and she wants to push them all away so she can just grieve and get through this and go back to London, school and the life she had there. What she didn't expect is that she would develop real feelings for the prince and him her. She couldn't believe that even after he saw the way her father was that he still wanted to have anything to do with her. 

I loved this series of books. It was so nice to read about love that was real and it wasn't a fight. Of course they fought it but not like most books. It was a resistance that wasn't really worth the effort. They soon came to their senses and realized the love they had was worth it. I was hooked on this series from the first book with Samantha and Alex's story. Then Cathy and David's story. We did get to see all of them except David. I loved them all. Check them out!! You'll enjoy them I'm sure! 

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