How to Master Your Marquis (A Princess in Hiding Romance)
Forced to flee their home of Holstein-Schweinwald-Huhnhof when anarchist assassins kill her father and brother-in-law, Princess Stefanie Victoria Augusta and her sisters seek refuge in England, where their uncle, the Duke of Olympia, convinces them they must disguise themselves as men until the assassins can be caught. Assuming the persona of Stephen Thomas, a quiet young law clerk in the employ of Sir John Worthington, Q.C., Stefanie dreads spending the next few months doing nothing but dully toiling away in a musty old law office—that is until she meets her employer’s nephew James Lambert, the Marquess of Hatherfield. The old Stefanie would immediately begin flirting with the deliciously sexy James, but Stefanie quickly discovers how difficult it is to flirt when you are wearing a man’s suit yourself! The second winning addition in Gray’s Princess in Hiding series (How to Tame Your Duke, 2013) delivers plenty of high-stakes drama (including a murder trial right out of Rumpole of the Bailey) and an abundance of scorchingly hot sexual chemistry between the novel’s protagonists, not to mention writing that snaps, crackles, and pops with the author’s sharp sense of wit. --John Charles