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A fan-favorite from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann, originally published in 1999 as Undercover Princess.
Princess Katherine Wyndham has gone from privileged royalty to secret agent. Her mission: to locate her brother--the long-lost crown prince. Her cover: nanny for handsome tycoon Trey Sutherland.
Caring for Trey’s kids comes more naturally to Katherine than any royal duty ever has. And falling for the brooding widower is equally effortless. But Katherine has always been the plain-Jane princess. Is it too much to hope that Trey could want a happily-ever-after with her . . . especially once he discovers who she really is?
Princess Katherine Wyndham has gone from privileged royalty to secret agent. Her mission: to locate her brother--the long-lost crown prince. Her cover: nanny for handsome tycoon Trey Sutherland.
Caring for Trey’s kids comes more naturally to Katherine than any royal duty ever has. And falling for the brooding widower is equally effortless. But Katherine has always been the plain-Jane princess. Is it too much to hope that Trey could want a happily-ever-after with her . . . especially once he discovers who she really is?
272 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 1, 1999
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Suzanne Brockmann
253 books3,568 followersAfter childhood plans to become the captain of a starship didn’t pan out, Suzanne Brockmann took her fascination with military history, her respect for the men and women who serve, her reverence for diversity, and her love of storytelling, and explored brave new worlds as a bestselling romance author.
Over the past thirty years she has written sixty-three novels, including her award-winning Troubleshooters series about Navy SEAL heroes and the women—and sometimes men—who win their hearts. Her personal favorite is the one where her most popular character, gay FBI agent Jules Cassidy, wins his happily-ever-after and marries the man of his dreams. Called All Through the Night, this mainstream romance novel with a hero and a hero hit the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. In 2007, Suz donated all of her earnings from this book, in perpetuity, to MassEquality, to help win and preserve equal marriage rights in Massachusetts.
In addition to writing books, Suz writes and produces indie movies and TV including the award-winning romantic comedy The Perfect Wedding. Her recent feature, Out of Body, is streaming on Amazon Prime.
In 2018, Suz was given the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America. Her latest projects are Blame It on Rio (Tall, Dark & Dangerous # 14), available in print and e-book from Suzanne Brockmann Books, and Marriage of Inconvenience, a six-episode LBGTQ rom-com TV series, streaming on Dekkoo in April 2023.
Over the past thirty years she has written sixty-three novels, including her award-winning Troubleshooters series about Navy SEAL heroes and the women—and sometimes men—who win their hearts. Her personal favorite is the one where her most popular character, gay FBI agent Jules Cassidy, wins his happily-ever-after and marries the man of his dreams. Called All Through the Night, this mainstream romance novel with a hero and a hero hit the New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list. In 2007, Suz donated all of her earnings from this book, in perpetuity, to MassEquality, to help win and preserve equal marriage rights in Massachusetts.
In addition to writing books, Suz writes and produces indie movies and TV including the award-winning romantic comedy The Perfect Wedding. Her recent feature, Out of Body, is streaming on Amazon Prime.
In 2018, Suz was given the Nora Roberts Lifetime Achievement Award from the Romance Writers of America. Her latest projects are Blame It on Rio (Tall, Dark & Dangerous # 14), available in print and e-book from Suzanne Brockmann Books, and Marriage of Inconvenience, a six-episode LBGTQ rom-com TV series, streaming on Dekkoo in April 2023.
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July 3, 2015
4 Fun Fairytale Romance!!!
***Audiobook***
A fun sweet romance with a fairytale twist. The audio was enjoyable. The narration was well done and the delivery of the funny and sexy lines were so fun! I'm sure I looked a bit loony to other drivers that might have seen me cracking up in the car.
Kate is a princess looking for her long lost brother and she believes that he might be the business partner of Trey Sutherland. She's been trying to get a meeting with Trey to inquire about her possible brother but couldn't ever get a meeting. When Trey holds interviews for the position of Nanny for his two kids, she sees it as her opportunity to go undercover as a "commoner" and be in a great position to find out more about Trey's business partner.
Kate was exactly what Trey and his kids needed. She was able to bring light, and good, and most especially LOVE back into their lives, which are all the things that have been missing from their lives since his wife passed. Kate was sweet and kind and caring but with an intelligent iron will when needed.
"Polite as hell and a little bossy on the outside - sex goddess when the door's locked."
Trey and the his kids were a bit broken and lost and Princess Katherine of Wynborough, known only as Kathy Wind to the Sutherland family as their Nanny, was exactly what the family needed to find their happily every after.
***Audiobook***
A fun sweet romance with a fairytale twist. The audio was enjoyable. The narration was well done and the delivery of the funny and sexy lines were so fun! I'm sure I looked a bit loony to other drivers that might have seen me cracking up in the car.
Kate is a princess looking for her long lost brother and she believes that he might be the business partner of Trey Sutherland. She's been trying to get a meeting with Trey to inquire about her possible brother but couldn't ever get a meeting. When Trey holds interviews for the position of Nanny for his two kids, she sees it as her opportunity to go undercover as a "commoner" and be in a great position to find out more about Trey's business partner.
Kate was exactly what Trey and his kids needed. She was able to bring light, and good, and most especially LOVE back into their lives, which are all the things that have been missing from their lives since his wife passed. Kate was sweet and kind and caring but with an intelligent iron will when needed.
"Polite as hell and a little bossy on the outside - sex goddess when the door's locked."
Trey and the his kids were a bit broken and lost and Princess Katherine of Wynborough, known only as Kathy Wind to the Sutherland family as their Nanny, was exactly what the family needed to find their happily every after.
August 22, 2015
22/8 - *Deep, frustrated sigh* Why is it so difficult to put details about any series a book may be part of on the front cover? Do publishers really think we should all walk around with internet capable phones ready to check what position a book is within a series? Or should we just not care? I get so annoyed when I realise that a book is part of a series, and that it's not the first book. This seems to be happening to me more and more, at least once a month now, and it's only to the detriment of the book (and author and publisher) that I get reading without knowing its series status, because being at a complete loss over what's happening tends to lead to a lower star rating.
It was almost immediately clear that this was not the first book in its series. We are thrown into the story like we already know who the main character is, the way the opening (usually information giving) chapters are written it obvious the author is assuming we've already read about Princess Katherine (Kathy) and the background to her situation in the previous book of the series. Except I haven't and it took me a couple of chapters to catch on to what was going on.
Kathy is kind of like a modern day Mary Poppins. She is relentlessly cheerful, forgiving of difficult children and overbearing fathers who can't cope, knows enough psychology to be able to draw out a child who has reverted to being a dog in order to deal with the loss of his mother, thinks everyone should be hugged every day and that conversations should be started with a compliment towards another person just to make them feel good (no matter whether the topic of conversation is mundane or the discussion of punishment for bad behaviour by one of the children). The one thing Kathy didn't do is sing.
I liked the kids, Dougie (Doggie because that's how his sister pronounced it when she was young) and Stacy. Although, Stacy must be a 13-year-old savant when it comes to adult sexual behaviour because she discussed how Kathy should act and dress when it came to seducing her father in way too much detail for most other teenagers (most children, no matter how old they are, do not want to even think about their parents having sex). The kidnap plot at the end has to be one of the most ridiculously fake reasons for Brockmann could come up with for Kathy to go racing back to Trey, no matter what he had said about not wanting a relationship with her. Obviously, there needed to be a reason for Kathy to feel like she could go back to Trey and not be immediately booted back out the door, but it didn't have to be the lamest and least evil kidnapping of all time. I think a better scenario would have been Stacy inexplicably not coming home from school one afternoon, everyone's out searching for her assuming she's run away again, but in reality she's been hit by a car and taken to hospital (nothing serious, broken arm or leg, or kept in to check for concussion) with no I.D. Kathy is there to support Trey and the rest of the story goes as originally written. Much less lame. Will keep an eye out for the first and third books in the series.
It was almost immediately clear that this was not the first book in its series. We are thrown into the story like we already know who the main character is, the way the opening (usually information giving) chapters are written it obvious the author is assuming we've already read about Princess Katherine (Kathy) and the background to her situation in the previous book of the series. Except I haven't and it took me a couple of chapters to catch on to what was going on.
Kathy is kind of like a modern day Mary Poppins. She is relentlessly cheerful, forgiving of difficult children and overbearing fathers who can't cope, knows enough psychology to be able to draw out a child who has reverted to being a dog in order to deal with the loss of his mother, thinks everyone should be hugged every day and that conversations should be started with a compliment towards another person just to make them feel good (no matter whether the topic of conversation is mundane or the discussion of punishment for bad behaviour by one of the children). The one thing Kathy didn't do is sing.
I liked the kids, Dougie (Doggie because that's how his sister pronounced it when she was young) and Stacy. Although, Stacy must be a 13-year-old savant when it comes to adult sexual behaviour because she discussed how Kathy should act and dress when it came to seducing her father in way too much detail for most other teenagers (most children, no matter how old they are, do not want to even think about their parents having sex). The kidnap plot at the end has to be one of the most ridiculously fake reasons for Brockmann could come up with for Kathy to go racing back to Trey, no matter what he had said about not wanting a relationship with her. Obviously, there needed to be a reason for Kathy to feel like she could go back to Trey and not be immediately booted back out the door, but it didn't have to be the lamest and least evil kidnapping of all time. I think a better scenario would have been Stacy inexplicably not coming home from school one afternoon, everyone's out searching for her assuming she's run away again, but in reality she's been hit by a car and taken to hospital (nothing serious, broken arm or leg, or kept in to check for concussion) with no I.D. Kathy is there to support Trey and the rest of the story goes as originally written. Much less lame. Will keep an eye out for the first and third books in the series.
January 18, 2019
1.5 stars
This book uses the Lord's name in vain so often I wasn't sure if I was reading a Christian romance novel or a secular one.
It is full of people who desperately need counseling and comes across very, very 90s. (I kept getting flashes of the Parent Trap remake.)
At the same time, I must admit this book fulfilled my craving for something mindless and ridiculous.
This book uses the Lord's name in vain so often I wasn't sure if I was reading a Christian romance novel or a secular one.
It is full of people who desperately need counseling and comes across very, very 90s. (I kept getting flashes of the Parent Trap remake.)
At the same time, I must admit this book fulfilled my craving for something mindless and ridiculous.
October 31, 2019
I wrote a wonderful review for this book and my computer burped and I lost it. I hate that! Okay, here we go again. I love the audio for this book. The narrator got the upper class British accent perfectly for Kathy. She also voiced the other parts with nuance and the whole thing was fantastic. You never know what you will get with an older book, but this one was wonderful. Suzanne Brockman even managed to throw in some mystery, suspense and humor, just the way I like my romance.
Princess Katherine Wyndham is on a mission to track down a man who could be her long-lost older brother. The trail leads her to New Mexico and his business partner, Trey Sutherland. She is having a tough time reaching the very busy Mr. Sutherland
When Kathy shows up at his house he mistakes her for a applicant for the nanny position. Trey lost his wife under mysterious circumstances three years ago, his children are rebelling, he can't keep a nanny and his business partner has disappeared off the face of the earth leaving his with a business to run. Kathy takes the job in an effort to find her brother and ends up falling in love with the children, and their father.
Princess Katherine Wyndham is on a mission to track down a man who could be her long-lost older brother. The trail leads her to New Mexico and his business partner, Trey Sutherland. She is having a tough time reaching the very busy Mr. Sutherland
When Kathy shows up at his house he mistakes her for a applicant for the nanny position. Trey lost his wife under mysterious circumstances three years ago, his children are rebelling, he can't keep a nanny and his business partner has disappeared off the face of the earth leaving his with a business to run. Kathy takes the job in an effort to find her brother and ends up falling in love with the children, and their father.
September 25, 2015
Undercover Princess, by Suzanne Brockmann, is apparently part of a series? Whatever, I picked it up because Suzanne Brockmann is the author of a romantic thriller starring a gay couple and so I now automatically grab whatever she's writing lately because there might be queer people in it. This is my life.
Sadly, there are no queer people in Undercover Princess. What there is, is a lot of weird awkwardness, sexual tension, and an oddly rushed ending in which the original mystery of the book never gets solved. To whit: Princess Katherine Wyndham is looking for her long-lost brother, and runs across as possible lead in business tycoon Troy Sutherland. He's a widower, suspected by the general populace (though not the police) of killing his wife, who's desperately looking for a nanny to take care of his two children. On the spur of the momeny Katherine decides to be "Kathy Wind," nanny extraordinaire. Naturally she and Troy fall in love. Naturally there's the Big Misunderstanding (tm) over whether he killed his wife (spoiler: he did not) and whether she intentionally decieved him about being a princess (she obviously did, but with the best of intentions). Even more naturally they get married. There is zero resolution for the brother plot, but since this is part of a series, that's probably why.
Eh, it was okay. The vast majority of the book, with Katherine and Troy falling in love, was actually really well done. The beginning was pretty good, and the child psychology pretty spot-on-- actually the psychology in general is pretty spot-on. It's a romance, but it's also about grief and recovery, and that bit is good. It's just that the ending, the resolution to the Big Misunderstanding (tm) is really rushed and sort of out of nowhere. Though Brockmann did her best to set it up earlier in the book, it still feels like the entire climax moves way too fast and resolves things way too quickly, especially for a book that had been so low-key and non-dramatic up until then (well, as non-dramatic as you can get in a book about an incognito princess and a tycoon who may have killed his wife). That ending just left such a "meh" impression on me. I doubt I'll be reading the rest of the series.
Instead, I will reread All Through the Night. Because it is a romantic thriller about a gay couple getting married and I will never stop loving it.
Sadly, there are no queer people in Undercover Princess. What there is, is a lot of weird awkwardness, sexual tension, and an oddly rushed ending in which the original mystery of the book never gets solved. To whit: Princess Katherine Wyndham is looking for her long-lost brother, and runs across as possible lead in business tycoon Troy Sutherland. He's a widower, suspected by the general populace (though not the police) of killing his wife, who's desperately looking for a nanny to take care of his two children. On the spur of the momeny Katherine decides to be "Kathy Wind," nanny extraordinaire. Naturally she and Troy fall in love. Naturally there's the Big Misunderstanding (tm) over whether he killed his wife (spoiler: he did not) and whether she intentionally decieved him about being a princess (she obviously did, but with the best of intentions). Even more naturally they get married. There is zero resolution for the brother plot, but since this is part of a series, that's probably why.
Eh, it was okay. The vast majority of the book, with Katherine and Troy falling in love, was actually really well done. The beginning was pretty good, and the child psychology pretty spot-on-- actually the psychology in general is pretty spot-on. It's a romance, but it's also about grief and recovery, and that bit is good. It's just that the ending, the resolution to the Big Misunderstanding (tm) is really rushed and sort of out of nowhere. Though Brockmann did her best to set it up earlier in the book, it still feels like the entire climax moves way too fast and resolves things way too quickly, especially for a book that had been so low-key and non-dramatic up until then (well, as non-dramatic as you can get in a book about an incognito princess and a tycoon who may have killed his wife). That ending just left such a "meh" impression on me. I doubt I'll be reading the rest of the series.
Instead, I will reread All Through the Night. Because it is a romantic thriller about a gay couple getting married and I will never stop loving it.
June 8, 2018
It doesn't matter what Brockmann writes, it's all good. This one is no exception. Love her strong characters. Every book teaches, and this one, more than most (especially a fictional one). Great story, great plot, great characters... what more could you want?
March 30, 2013
This is a review of the Kindle Edition of Undercover Princess, originally released as Silhouette Intimate Moments #968
Twenty-five-year-old Princess Katherine Wyndham comes from a small principality in Europe. She is the youngest of her sisters and, in her own eyes, very "plain" compared to the other princesses and her mother, all of whom are heart-stoppingly gorgeous. Katherine has had only one love affair up until the moment of the story. The man involved used her to get ahead and ultimately dumped her, leaving Katherine very cynical about men who know her true identity.
Katherine's brother, the heir to the throne, was kidnapped as an infant, and her family recently has had leads in America as to several possibilities for his location. One of those leads is Trey Sutherland. Her brother was raised in an orphanage, and he may currently be Trey's business partner. Katherine has been trying unsuccessfully for days to get an appointment with the reclusive Trey, then suddenly when she calls his office, his secretary gives her an appointment for an interview that very day at Trey's home. Katherine grabs at this unexpected opportunity and rushes over to Trey's house, which appears more like a small castle than a home, with Trey's office located in a turret.
Katherine discovers that the reason she has finally been invited in so readily is that Trey desperately needs a nanny, and the secretary assumed that Katherine was applying for the job. Katherine does not want to deceive Trey as to her purpose for seeing him, but several things happen to cause her to decide to go "undercover," starting with telling Trey her name is "Kathy Wind." First, the man who may be her brother is currently out of town on an extended stay, and Katherine wants to be around when he next contacts Trey. Second, Katherine is instantly attracted to handsome, 35-year-old Trey, and he is clearly drawn to her. It is very tempting to get to know him without the burden of her princess identity tainting their interaction. Finally, her heart goes out to his children, who have gone through innumerable nannies and are in a very bad place. Trey's wife died three years before, and Trey's daughter and son are still obviously traumatized by the loss of their mother. When Trey sees how well his children respond to Katherine, he begs her to become their nanny. Katherine impulsively accepts his offer of a job.
This book has a wonderful hero and fantastic heroine! The passion between them is powerful, and their emotional connection is deep and very moving.
What was particularly enjoyable for me, as an added bonus over and above even these great things in the story, were the scenes where the heroine, Kathy, interacts as temporary nanny with the children of the hero, Trey. The daughter is 13 and quite angry and rebellious. The son is six, almost seven, and hasn't spoken in three years. He pretends to be a dog and only communicates by barking. His name is Doug, but his sister calls him, "Doggie." The manner in which Kathy coaxes him back into acting like a little boy again instead of a dog is both hilarious and extremely touching. Kathy's relationship with the hero's teenage daughter is great, too.
I originally read this book in 1999, and I just reread this book in a Kindle edition. It is well formatted and edited.
There is one main area of the story that is rather unbelievable to me this time around that I did not notice too much back in 1999 on my first read of this book. That is the fact that the heroine is able to get away with giving a fake name to the hero only because he never asks her to show identification to prove who she is, and she is not asked, as a non-US citizen, to demonstrate that she is legally able to work in the U.S. Such identification would have immediately blown her "undercover operation," and it has been required by employers for decades in this country, not just post-9/11. However, I will admit that many people, including prominent politicians, have made a habit over the years of paying undocumented workers such as nannies under the table, and so might have Trey. But it seems a shade too convenient to the story's requirements to just pretend this legal reality doesn't exist rather than motivating Trey for carelessly overlooking it.
A more likely downside to this story for many readers than the "papers, please" technicality is the fact that the mystery about the missing prince, which is the premise for the "cute meet" of the heroine and hero, is not resolved in this book. This book was originally released by Harlequin as part of the Silhouette Intimate Moments line, #968, December 1999, and labeled as Book 2 of the "Royally Wed" series. There are a total of 12 books in this series, and the rest of the books were not written by Brockmann, but by other Harlequin authors. Presumably the mystery about the prince is not fully resolved until the last book of this series. This is the only book of that series I myself have read.
Below is a complete list of the books in the "Royally Wed" series, only a few of which have so far been re-released by Harlequin in ebook format:
A Royal Baby on the Way, Book 1
Undercover Princess by Suzanne Brockmann, Book 2
The Princess's White Knight by Carla Cassidy, Book 3
The Pregnant Princess, Book 4
Man...Mercenary...Monarch by Joan Elliott Pickart, Book 5
Royal Masquerade by Arlene James, Book 6
AA Royal Marriage by Cara Colter, Book 7
A Royal Mission by Elizabeth August, Book 8
The Expectant Princess by Stella Bagwell, Book 9
Blacksheep Prince's Bride by Martha Shields, Book 10
Code Name: Prince by Valerie Parv, Book 11
An Officer and a Princess by Carla Cassidy, Book 12
Twenty-five-year-old Princess Katherine Wyndham comes from a small principality in Europe. She is the youngest of her sisters and, in her own eyes, very "plain" compared to the other princesses and her mother, all of whom are heart-stoppingly gorgeous. Katherine has had only one love affair up until the moment of the story. The man involved used her to get ahead and ultimately dumped her, leaving Katherine very cynical about men who know her true identity.
Katherine's brother, the heir to the throne, was kidnapped as an infant, and her family recently has had leads in America as to several possibilities for his location. One of those leads is Trey Sutherland. Her brother was raised in an orphanage, and he may currently be Trey's business partner. Katherine has been trying unsuccessfully for days to get an appointment with the reclusive Trey, then suddenly when she calls his office, his secretary gives her an appointment for an interview that very day at Trey's home. Katherine grabs at this unexpected opportunity and rushes over to Trey's house, which appears more like a small castle than a home, with Trey's office located in a turret.
Katherine discovers that the reason she has finally been invited in so readily is that Trey desperately needs a nanny, and the secretary assumed that Katherine was applying for the job. Katherine does not want to deceive Trey as to her purpose for seeing him, but several things happen to cause her to decide to go "undercover," starting with telling Trey her name is "Kathy Wind." First, the man who may be her brother is currently out of town on an extended stay, and Katherine wants to be around when he next contacts Trey. Second, Katherine is instantly attracted to handsome, 35-year-old Trey, and he is clearly drawn to her. It is very tempting to get to know him without the burden of her princess identity tainting their interaction. Finally, her heart goes out to his children, who have gone through innumerable nannies and are in a very bad place. Trey's wife died three years before, and Trey's daughter and son are still obviously traumatized by the loss of their mother. When Trey sees how well his children respond to Katherine, he begs her to become their nanny. Katherine impulsively accepts his offer of a job.
This book has a wonderful hero and fantastic heroine! The passion between them is powerful, and their emotional connection is deep and very moving.
What was particularly enjoyable for me, as an added bonus over and above even these great things in the story, were the scenes where the heroine, Kathy, interacts as temporary nanny with the children of the hero, Trey. The daughter is 13 and quite angry and rebellious. The son is six, almost seven, and hasn't spoken in three years. He pretends to be a dog and only communicates by barking. His name is Doug, but his sister calls him, "Doggie." The manner in which Kathy coaxes him back into acting like a little boy again instead of a dog is both hilarious and extremely touching. Kathy's relationship with the hero's teenage daughter is great, too.
I originally read this book in 1999, and I just reread this book in a Kindle edition. It is well formatted and edited.
There is one main area of the story that is rather unbelievable to me this time around that I did not notice too much back in 1999 on my first read of this book. That is the fact that the heroine is able to get away with giving a fake name to the hero only because he never asks her to show identification to prove who she is, and she is not asked, as a non-US citizen, to demonstrate that she is legally able to work in the U.S. Such identification would have immediately blown her "undercover operation," and it has been required by employers for decades in this country, not just post-9/11. However, I will admit that many people, including prominent politicians, have made a habit over the years of paying undocumented workers such as nannies under the table, and so might have Trey. But it seems a shade too convenient to the story's requirements to just pretend this legal reality doesn't exist rather than motivating Trey for carelessly overlooking it.
A more likely downside to this story for many readers than the "papers, please" technicality is the fact that the mystery about the missing prince, which is the premise for the "cute meet" of the heroine and hero, is not resolved in this book. This book was originally released by Harlequin as part of the Silhouette Intimate Moments line, #968, December 1999, and labeled as Book 2 of the "Royally Wed" series. There are a total of 12 books in this series, and the rest of the books were not written by Brockmann, but by other Harlequin authors. Presumably the mystery about the prince is not fully resolved until the last book of this series. This is the only book of that series I myself have read.
Below is a complete list of the books in the "Royally Wed" series, only a few of which have so far been re-released by Harlequin in ebook format:
A Royal Baby on the Way, Book 1
Undercover Princess by Suzanne Brockmann, Book 2
The Princess's White Knight by Carla Cassidy, Book 3
The Pregnant Princess, Book 4
Man...Mercenary...Monarch by Joan Elliott Pickart, Book 5
Royal Masquerade by Arlene James, Book 6
AA Royal Marriage by Cara Colter, Book 7
A Royal Mission by Elizabeth August, Book 8
The Expectant Princess by Stella Bagwell, Book 9
Blacksheep Prince's Bride by Martha Shields, Book 10
Code Name: Prince by Valerie Parv, Book 11
An Officer and a Princess by Carla Cassidy, Book 12
July 26, 2014
Princess Katherine Wyndham is on a mission to locate her older brother who was kidnapped as a child and presumed dead. This leads her to handsome Tycoon Trey Sutherland who may know something about her brother. Since the only way Katherine can get in to talk to Trey is to pose as a Nanny looking for a job, she ends up caring for Trey's children. Soon she finds that she is a natural at caring for children...and for their father.
I'm working my way through Suzanne Brockmann's backlist and find myself enjoying each story. This one was no exception. Even though the premise is a bit unbelievable, I found both the hero and heroine are interesting characters. The children are also well-drawn and gave the story more depth. This book is part of the "Royally Wed" series and makes me want to pick up the other books in the series even though they are written by other authors. My rating: 4 Stars.
I'm working my way through Suzanne Brockmann's backlist and find myself enjoying each story. This one was no exception. Even though the premise is a bit unbelievable, I found both the hero and heroine are interesting characters. The children are also well-drawn and gave the story more depth. This book is part of the "Royally Wed" series and makes me want to pick up the other books in the series even though they are written by other authors. My rating: 4 Stars.
December 31, 2015
I bought this online used as a whim. This was apparently part of a series put out by the publisher in which different authors tackled different royal sisters who go in search of their long-lost brother, the heir to the throne. Despite the very hokey premise, I enjoyed this book. Brockmann's usual flair for characterization carried the story. She almost makes me want to read the rest of the series but I have heard that Brockmann's was the best of them all, so I will give the others a pass.
February 17, 2019
Princess Katherine Wyndham is on a mission. A mission to locate her brother--the long-lost crown prince, (who was kidnapped as a baby years ago) Her cover: nanny for handsome tycoon Trey Sutherland in New Mexico. The only thing she must do is keep this completely business and keep her feelings for Trey to herself but it so as it that he cant keep her off his mind either.
September 8, 2015
A quick entertaining read. Hero is a bit of a workaholic and heroine is a princess looking for her long lost brother. She ends up applying for the position of nanny in hopes that hero knows where the possible prince might be.
April 22, 2015
Audiobook new, text old. Not a good enough book to make up for the hero obsessively checking his fax machine for a message from the heroine. Also, not a stand-alone.
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July 8, 2017Miniseries: Royally Wed
June 15, 2021
I found the daughter of the hero a bit annoying. Otherwise a sweet single dad romance.
September 27, 2019
Probably 3 stars because I enjoyed this, but I wouldn't recommend this book unless it was specifically the type of thing one was hankering for. Suzanne Brockmann knows how to write a solid romance sprinkled with enough seriousness to feel for the characters, as well as heat. This book is a shameless amalgamation of multiple common romance tropes, like someone accidentally threw the storyboards at Hallmark up in the air and wrote a story with whichever things fell into a delineated circle: princess, loving father widower, hot businessman recluse, boss/nanny. It doesn't help that I recently finished The Bookshop on the Shore, which was basically the same storyline and an obvious riff on Jane Eyre.
January 14, 2018
So this book was awful. Plot lines were completely predictable. The teenager was angsty but still called her father “daddy”. The main man/father was helpless at parenting without a woman in the picture. The word choice, both in dialog and in description, is strange (ex. talking about true love: “She would soon learn that there was no such banana in the fruit bowl of life.”). Also there was not nearly enough Christmas for a book that takes place around Christmastime.
But I still enjoyed reading this book. There is something so endearing and compelling about how horrible the writing is. I don’t know that I would recommend reading it, but I suppose that if you enjoy paperback romances you might enjoy this one.
But I still enjoyed reading this book. There is something so endearing and compelling about how horrible the writing is. I don’t know that I would recommend reading it, but I suppose that if you enjoy paperback romances you might enjoy this one.
July 3, 2019
Sweet
It’s a very sweet romance but her other seal type books are better. They are more spicer. This story begged for what more Exactly were they doing on that desk. I don’t want to use my imagination. I needed more Details more specific. I think this author has mellowed out as the years have passed. I was disappointed in this story to some degree. I will however give her definite credit for the heated chemistry sizzling between both of the main characters. That part was awesome.
It’s a very sweet romance but her other seal type books are better. They are more spicer. This story begged for what more Exactly were they doing on that desk. I don’t want to use my imagination. I needed more Details more specific. I think this author has mellowed out as the years have passed. I was disappointed in this story to some degree. I will however give her definite credit for the heated chemistry sizzling between both of the main characters. That part was awesome.
February 8, 2020
Sweet nanny-secret-princess story. Hero is a gazillionaire whose wife died and his kids still aren't coping well, 3 years after the fact. He's desperate for a nanny. The heroine is a princess of a small made-up kingdom who is looking for her long lost brother. He was kidnapped as a baby and taken to a US orphanage, and it's just barely possible he could be the hero's business partner. So she figures she'll become the hero's temporary nanny and be around when the partner turns up from wherever he's taken off to this time. And of course she's the perfect nanny...
June 18, 2025
Suzanne Brockmann used to be one of my favorite authors. So when I saw this as a free kindle I decided to read it. Apparently it’s one of a whole series where these princess sisters are trying to find their brother that was brought up in an orphanage. (Was he stolen as a baby?? No idea)
Anyway the book is predictable and not that great. The princess takes a job as a nanny working for a rich widower because she thinks her long lost brother could be the widower’s business partner. I’m assuming he’s not but that’s never revealed in this book.
Anyway the book is predictable and not that great. The princess takes a job as a nanny working for a rich widower because she thinks her long lost brother could be the widower’s business partner. I’m assuming he’s not but that’s never revealed in this book.
April 17, 2020
An unfinished thought
This is the only book by Ms. Rickman that I have ever read that I was disappointed in. It was obviously meant to be a series, there are to many unanswered plot lines, who is her sisters baby daddy, is the partner really her long lost brother? Just so incomplete or there where other books not republished into e books. Darn.
This is the only book by Ms. Rickman that I have ever read that I was disappointed in. It was obviously meant to be a series, there are to many unanswered plot lines, who is her sisters baby daddy, is the partner really her long lost brother? Just so incomplete or there where other books not republished into e books. Darn.
June 22, 2025
I love this, I love Kathy's interaction with the family without being overbearing to the kids and their father. It showed the dynamic of a family in need of help after the trauma of loss of an important family member. This book really shows the importance of family interaction and communication. Overall I love the book and finished it in one sitting. Would recommend.
December 28, 2017
I like the premise and the overall storyline but feel like I missed something. This is part of a series? Is that why it felt untidy and incomplete? Now the real question becomes do I move on or do I hunt for the rest of the series to see if it is more satisfying as a series. Decisions, decisions.
March 5, 2018
Disappointing payoff. With this typical plot, you expect some good feels at the end and some groveling after the blowup.
November 17, 2020
This isn’t the kind of book I’m used to from Brockmann, but honestly it was adorable!! I love a good funny romance, and this one delivered. Her way with fast, clean dialogue and quirky characters is as evident in this nanny-who-is-really-royalty as it is in any of her Troubleshooters books.
October 25, 2025
This book was nice, soft and without much substance - like cotton candy. It was enjoyable in its predictability. The plot was implausible, but the characters were likeable and it was a nice break from more intense books I read recently. 3.25 stars.
March 26, 2017
Cute.
June 1, 2017
Loved it!!!!!!
December 24, 2017
Bastante dura la infancia para los dos pequeños, pero me gustó como la protagonista abordó la situación.
February 10, 2018
Una historia corta y sencilla para pasar el rato.
June 30, 2018
major procrastination read, sweet and very likable characters, I also liked the relationship development with the kids
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