The Therantian royal wedding between the newly crowned King Finn O'Casey and his sophisticated fiancée Duchess Cora Westgate is happening in just a few days, and to make it all happen on time and up to royal standards Shayla de la Cruz has decided to give up sleep for Lent. This is the biggest event of her career and her life and she is determined to pull it off without a hitch.

When her boss and mentor, the renowned wedding planner Evan Antian, is injured in a freak accident, pulling off the royal event of the century falls squarely on her shoulders. She’s got this, but man, is it a lot of work. After Evan’s accident is found not to be quite so accidental, and the palace guards have reason to be concerned for the security of the wedding.

The Palace Guards assign her one hot, sexy and inconvenient Xander Colgrove to be her bodyguard, because the wedding must go on.


Xander is uneasy about the new assignment. He’s been crushing on her since she first started working on the wedding, and he knows that all of his suaveness and game go right out the window when she walks in the room. She’s beautiful, sweet, smart, and practical. Plus, she likes his baking. When a continuing series of strange occurrences crop up around her, Xander realizes he needs to fight if he wants to keep her both alive and in his life.

Suddenly it seems that the threats gunning for the King and his fiancée have their sights firmly fixed on stopping the wedding, and Shayla is very much in the way.

Those who’ll stop at nothing have never met Xander, a man who isn’t afraid to fight dirty for king, country, and those he loves.