As soon as I finished this book I went and bought the first one in the series and then added all of the authors other books to my list. I cried in some scenes because of how powerful they were. I was a little annoyed with how many times the main character brought up she's fat and then Prince Charming would just brush it off instead of assure her. I am already ready for book 3 and Bob/Marlowe romance and I can't wait to see if Cal and June have grown their family!

So you already know this is a modern day Cinderella story. But it’s so much more at the same time. Cal and June have both been trapped and afraid to move forward in life. They’re both scarred by their pasts, even if only one has visible proof of that. They just click from jump, and when Cal’s suspicions are confirmed, he gives June the opportunity she’s been waiting for, yet afraid to grab onto until now. And while they learn more about each other, they both fall. But can they work past the psychological scars and fears that remain from an ordeal? Or are they doomed to be temporary and nothing more?

This series is a bit of a departure from the author’s other works, but I must say that I definitely enjoy it. We have strong men unafraid to share their true emotions and fears. We have stronger women who can save themselves, or at least delay any true endgame until outside help arrives. And we have love that comes with communication and maturity. Since Bob was so adept at providing some advice and perspective here, I can’t wait to see what happens when his future is staring him in the face. Or what will blow up in it when his truths come out….

This is the retelling of Cinderella. Cal become a bodyguard for a woman who pretend to have a stalker just so she can trap Cal because of his title. When he come and sees a woman he become attracted to June their attraction been instantly but also their been low self esteem from the heroine as she been told she ugly and fat from her stepmother and step sister. She been abuse by them and manipulated and finding out what happen really happen to june father and what the stepmom and step sis what to do to June and she in danger.
A slow burn but the steam scene is 1 . Their is a story about crappy which I didn't know I'm going to read his book.
received an arc from netgaley for my honest reviewed.

This book was steamy, emotional, fun, and suspenseful! I need to get the first book in this series. Great experience reading Susan Stoker for the first time.

Thank you NetGalley and Montlake for the arc of this book.

This book is a winner! Once I started reading, I couldn't put it down. I fell in love with the characters as they came alive on the page. This a wonderful twist on a retelling of the classic Cinderella. Cal is the most unprincely prince ever - almost an antiprince, while June is the beaten down step looking for a way out of her miserable existence. When they meet, something sparks inside of them. However, like any true Cinderella, she has the evil stepmother and stepsister who won't take no for an answer.

Put this at the top of your must read list. The author is on my must read authors' list and, if I could give this book more than five stars, I would.

Another great addition to this series. We finally get the princes story. He was tortured while a pow because they found out he was a prince. But now he has his own company with the friends he was in captivity with. June was living in the house her father wanted her to have before he died, but her step-mother and step-sister were pains in her butt and treated her like crap. There's plenty of danger, deceit and manipulation. But Cal was bound and determined to make her his. There are life and death moments coming. HEA.