“Will the princess save the beast?
For Princess Jaya Rao, nothing is more important than family. When the loathsome Emerson clan steps up their centuries-old feud to target Jaya’s little sister, nothing will keep Jaya from exacting her revenge. Then Jaya finds out she’ll be attending the same elite boarding school as Grey Emerson, and it feels like the opportunity of a lifetime. She knows what she must do: Make Grey fall in love with her and break his heart. But much to Jaya’s annoyance, Grey’s brooding demeanor and lupine blue eyes have drawn her in. There’s simply no way she and her sworn enemy could find their fairy-tale ending…right?
His Lordship Grey Emerson is a misanthrope. Thanks to an ancient curse by a Rao matriarch, Grey knows he’s doomed once he turns eighteen. Sequestered away in the mountains at St. Rosetta’s International Academy, he’s lived an isolated existence—until Jaya Rao bursts into his life, but he can't shake the feeling that she’s hiding something. Something that might just have to do with the rose-shaped ruby pendant around her neck…
As the stars conspire to keep them apart, Jaya and Grey grapple with questions of love, loyalty, and whether it’s possible to write your own happy ending.” - taken from Goodreads.com
This was a cute retelling of the Beauty and the Beast fairy tale where a generations-old curse and the misplaced need for revenge bring together Jaya and Grey. There is a lot of back story to helpful in the reader on the history of the curse throughout the book. The best part of the story isn't Jaya and Grey’s slow-burn Romance or the details from the fairytale sprinkled throughout, but the Rao sisters’ relationship. The build-up for the next book in the series does take place in the second half of this novel.
Book two in the series, Of Princes and Promises, is due out Feb. 1, 2021.
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