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The Princes
COLLECTION
January 2020
Finding Her Prince
February 2020
An Heir for the Prince
March 2020
Her Exotic Prince
April 2020
Working for the Prince
May 2020
Deceiving Her Prince
June 2020
Seducing Her Prince
CAITLIN CREWS discovered her first romance novel at the age of twelve and has since conducted a life-long love affair with romance novels, many of which she insists on keeping near her at all times. She currently lives in the Pacific Northwest, with her animator/comic book artist husband and their menagerie of ridiculous animals.
A Royal Without Rules
Caitlin Crews
ISBN: 978-1-472-00228-0
A ROYAL WITHOUT RULES
© 2015 Catherine Schield
Published in Great Britain 2020
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To Megan Haslam who was so enthusiastic about this book even before I wrote it, and to Charlotte Ledger, who claimed Pato might have ruined her for all men. Thanks for being such fantastic editors!
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS Prince Patricio, the most debauched creature in the kingdom of Kitzinia—if not the entire world—and the bane of Adriana Righetti’s existence, lay sprawled across his sumptuous, princely bed in his vast apartments in the Kitzinia Royal Palace, sound asleep despite the fact it was three minutes past noon.
And he was not, Adriana saw as she strode into the room, alone.
According to legend and the European tabloids, Pato, without the pressure of his older brother’s responsibilities as heir apparent, and lacking the slightest shred of conscience or propriety, had not slept alone since puberty. Adriana had expected