Reclaiming His Ruined Princess [antikvár]

CHAPTER ONE Amalia Montaigne only realized how much she loved her life when it was taken from her. She supposed there was a lesson in that, little as she enjoyed learning it. She had been raised as the Crown Princess of He d'Montagne, a tiny island country in the Mediterranean, with her every move pored over and scrutinized by friend, foe, and paparazzo alike as she learned how to walk in the footsteps of her formidable mother, Queen Esme. Her main concern throughout her life so far had been the attempt to carve out a space in that fishbowl existence to be her. Not the Princess, bound by duty and convention. Not the public figure, owned by anyone and everyone who looked at her. A woman with a real life of her own, however hidden away from view. But real life wasn't easy to come by for a woman in her position. Her single experience with it had ended badly. And as far as she could tell, her mother had abdicated her own real life, such as it was, in