The Prince's Plan

by E. M. Youman

Overview

She can’t trust him…or her desire for him.

Marnie Ducello is way past second chances. Most days she’s fighting to forget the past and stay sober—a combination she doesn’t always pull off. She’s done waiting for Prince Charming. So when a sexy stranger turns out to be an arrogant, cab-stealing jerk, Marnie isn’t surprised. If only her rash reaction to his rudeness hadn’t resulted in her arrest…

Singer Danny Roland is no prince. He has fame, fortune, and a not-so-hidden addiction. He’s running from memories of the lives he’s ruined. Keeping his personal demons under control and out of the tabloids is what Danny wants more than anything. After a simple drug deal goes very wrong, Danny decides to make karmic amends—by finding the woman he abandoned to the police. Marnie’s a recovering addict, too, so he offers her the deal of a lifetime: a job as his personal assistant and a safe space in his home to live in if she stays sober.

Marnie is soon swept up into Danny’s world of prying paparazzi and vengeful exes. She can’t help the burning attraction between them, but she can’t trust Danny—or herself. And when Danny’s brother begins to pursue her, Marnie and Danny must both come to terms with the painful secrets that haunt them. They’re both broken…but maybe together they can be unbreakable.

ISBN: 9780996532617

Product Details

BN ID:	2940153490151
Publisher:	Will Records Publishing
Publication date:	02/07/2017
Sold by:	Draft2Digital
Format:	eBook
File size:	613 KB

About the Author

Once upon a time there was a girl who dreamed of a genie that took her on magical journeys, many of which may have included scenes from the Nancy Drew series (shh!!). Then one day she discovered Molly Ringwald and Andrew McCarthy and became obsessed with heart wrenching romances. When she’s not watching tear jerkers, she’s usually writing them.
E.M. Youman is a freelance writer from Oakland, CA. Some of her short stories have been published by Black Cat Press, S/tick Magazine, The Bowman’s Inn: Autumn and IFF. When she’s not writing fiction, E.M. Youman, works at an independent record label and runs a music blog. She has a B.A. and Master in Communication and is currently working on her first romance novel.
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Editorial Reviews

Singer Danny is a typical musician: an addict who has been with many women, ruined many lives through his self-centered inattention, and who is trying to redeem his soiled past by locating and making amends to a particular young woman whom he'd once abandoned.
Marnie's a lot like him - a recovering addict - only she's looking for love and waiting for her life to begin.
Neither suspected a new focus would be introduced by the other - but, it happens. When Marnie accepts a job with Danny, working as his personal assistant, a kettle of fish evolves as her job embraces exes, controversy, and publicity. Add the attentions of an unwelcome suitor to an already-complicated situation for a story line that is exquisitely fraught with tension.
The fact that both characters are flawed in similar ways, and that they come together against a backdrop of unusual circumstances, creates a tale that is inviting and intriguing. There are no pat solutions or approaches to their relationship as Danny struggles with addiction, enabling behavior patterns, and forging a different kind of relationship with Marnie: "He resisted the urge to pat her head and tell her everything would be okay. Sympathy would kill her. How many times had his family hugged him and given him another chance, which he had abused by using behind their backs? She didn't need him to be nice. "Do you even want to change your life around?"
Many such moments of insight are presented throughout The Prince's Plan, solidifying its plot and the human strengths and weaknesses of two characters who must find their own individual revised paths in life before coming together as a couple.
Readers who look for love stories firmly centered in realistic scenarios and protagonists who are not only imperfect, but broken, will find The Prince's Plan weaves a solid tale spiced by family drama, permeated with mood swings, and complicated by patterns of the past and an effort to build a different future: "All she ever wanted since Paul turned her life upside down through alcohol and drugs, was to go somewhere where no one knew her as a whore or a victim."
Romance readers who appreciate more psychological depth and social commentary than most typical love stories hold will find much different - and much to like - in The Prince's Plan.
~D. Donovan, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

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