

Though she uses her real name and brazenly touts her royal lineage because it sells more royal cream, Clarice is also on the run from someone – she’ll tell us who later – which makes her lack of discretion a bit difficult to understand for both reader and hero. With her younger sister Amy, Princess Clarice travels around England like a kind of Avon lady, selling the secret royal beauty cream originally whipped up by her Grandmamma, Dowager Queen Claudia. Princess Clarice (she is almost never referred to without her title) is the middle of three exiled princesses of the tiny Pyreneean kingdom of Beaumontagne.

It is the first book in a series, although there are connections to characters from books in at least one earlier series. Some Enchanted Evening, released in hardcover last year, was recently released as a mass market paperback.
