Melissa Romney-Jones is a London woman who runs her own business as a consultant to help single men with a variety of specialized tasks aimed at cleaning up their lives, their wardrobes and their manners. She is not, as some critics claim, a freelance girlfriend, although she has been known to put on a wig and an outrageous dress to accompany a client through a tricky business dinner.

Mel is newly engaged to estate agent Jonathan Riley, a successful American living in Paris. She's planning to move to Paris to be with him in a few months, although the date keeps being postponed. When her grandmother asks her for a huge favor -- to help return respectability to the family of an old friend -- Mel can't say no, even though it means reforming a wild playboy prince.

Mel is also kept busy maintaining her long-distance relationship with Jonathan by visiting him in Paris on the weekends, paying her share of the bills with her flatmate Nelson, and running home to her family in the country where her parents and grown siblings are increasingly out of control.

Mel has a lot riding on the reformation of the suave, sultry prince. This job will give her the down payment to buy her office building before she's evicted, and also make her grandmother very happy. But as her attraction to the sexy prince increases and the moving date from Nelson's flat to Jonathan's home in Paris grows near, Mel's work/life balance is unexpectedly confusing.

I'm sorry that I missed the first two books in this delightful series by Hester Brown, although this story is very enjoyable as a stand-alone novel. And the back story is easily summarized. THE LITTLE LADY AGENCY first introduced Mel's business, and LITTLE LADY, BIG APPLE covered the romance between Mel and Jonathan. While I suspect that the previous novels also had happy romantic endings, I like to believe that this happy ending will be the one that sticks. I would definitely welcome the opportunity to enjoy another novel continuing Mel's story, though. This is first-rate humorous chick-lit, and I highly recommend THE LITTLE LADY AGENCY AND THE PRINCE.