HOW TO PROTECT A PRINCESS is the first book in Cynthia Eden’s “Wilde Ways: Gone Rogue” series. This story is told from alternating perspectives, and part takes place in the U.S., and the last half takes place in a foreign country. Recently, Juliet Laurent found out she’s a long-lost princess. While that might be a fantasy for some women, it’s not for Juliet. She working as a bartender to pay for school, and she has dreams that being a princess would not help her accomplish. While HOW TO PROTECT A PRINCESS has Cynthia Eden’s signature mix of thrills, chills, and eroticism, it also looks at the dark side of fame and royalty.

Constantine Leos is has been many things – former FBI, BFF and partner for a notorious thief, Wilde agent – but now he’s acting as bodyguard to recently discovered princess. Almost from the first moment Constantine sets eyes on Juliet, he finds her enchanting and finds himself in an uncomfortable situation. Not only is she part of his current job, he thinks Juliet is too good to be in any kind of permanent or serious relationship with him. Juliet pushes him and doesn’t let him get away with that kind of thinking for too long. She’s been independent for a long time and is stronger than she may first appear. Whether in the states or in the European kingdom of Lancaden, Cynthia Eden expertly uses misdirection to throw the reader off balance and create more mystery surrounding who may be behind the attacks on Juliet. Naturally, the close quarters and intense circumstances only bond Constantine and Juliet tighter together and increase their feelings of attraction. There is a wonderful banter between these two that runs the gamut from fun and flirty, dead-serious and intense, and wildly hot.

HOW TO PROTECT A PRINCESS has a hopelessly devoted bodyguard hottie help a newly discovered princess dodge psychos and claim her inheritance. Although Eric Wilde is running a security agency, sometimes it feels as though he’s working as a matchmaker as well – and I love it! I like how the Wilde books are filled with tough female cops, and this story is no exception. I wouldn’t mind reading a story in the future with one of these ladies as the main female protagonist. I love Cynthia Eden’s Wilde world and can’t wait for the next book!