Cheeky Royal

Penny has been hired by the King to bring home his runaway son, Sebastian. She is ready to refuse the job until she catches her boyfriend cheating, and then leaving town looks like the best offer she has.

Sebastian has walked out of the palace he thinks of as a gilded cage. He never wanted the throne, and his plan is simple: find his long-lost brother and make him the prince, so he is spared the rule his father expects of him.

Then he meets his new neighbor. Penny is the woman he is supposed to be hiding from, though he does not know it, and he falls hard for her. She has her own secret: the prince she was sent to retrieve is the man living next door.

The book is a contemporary royal romance with alternating points of view, one chapter in Penny's voice and the next in Sebastian's. The mood is flirtatious and comic, with a lot of banter between the leads.

The tension rests on one fact: Sebastian cannot let Penny learn who he really is, and she is paid to find exactly that out.