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.
Making plans for her wedding to American fiancé Jonathan
Riley, who now runs a prestigious Parisian real estate
company, Melissa agrees to do a favor for her beloved
grandmother: transform the notorious Prince Nicolas von
Helsing-Alexandros into a proper gentleman for the sake of
preserving a family inheritance. Even possessive Jonathan
agrees it's a great opportunity to make social
connections. But taming a prince might prove too big a
professional challenge for Melissa when she's confronting
so many seismic changes in her own personal life.
Jonathan needs her in Paris. Her sister Emery's newborn
son needs a christening ceremony, as well as a proper
name. Emery herself needs Melissa -- to protect her from
their bulldog nanny who's returned to do much more than
babysit. Most unsettling of all, Nelson needs her to find
him a new flatmate because she'll be moving out soon.
Balancing all this with late-night dinners, polo matches,
and a Mediterranean cruise with Prince Nicky, who is as
charming as he is exasperating, suddenly has bride-to-be
Melissa dreaming of a fairy-tale ending -- and not the one
she expected!
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