Review: Great contemporary romance
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 15, 2014
At her country's tricentennial ball Isabelle is really loving life.  She is in love with Eric and she is looking forward to the future.  But the annoying Dan Bronson is rude enough to tell her its not going to happen.  Bronson was in the tiny nation hoping for a construction contract.  One that will probably be going to Eric's father.  He moves on to another construction project but can't stop thinking about the spoiler princess.  Isabelle who has to watch Eric marry her sister Julianne.  After all Isabelle is only the second sister.  After the death of their father Julianne throws Isabelle out of the country without a cent.  After some months of floundering she finally starts to thrive and sparks grow between her and Bronson.  As the book progresses it becomes easy to see that while Julianne might have power in her country and be married to the man her sister loved, Isabelle truly has the life to be envied.  But will Isabelle truly be able to give up more then just her body to Bronson?  Can she ever let him into her soul?  Will she realize she finally have the love she never had from her family?  Isabelle is quite likeable in this book despite being a former princess.  This was definitely one of my favorite books by Barbara Bretton so far.