Red-Hot and Royal (Paperback)

by Susanna Carr (Author) "EVERYTHING WAS GOING WRONG..." (more)
Key Phrases: susanna carr, royal astrologer, Prince Santos, Prince Charming, Miss Ballinger (more...)

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“The guys are hot, and the sexual tension is unbelievable!”
—New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries

“I can’t say that I have ever laughed so much while reading erotica…I love this book.”
—Romance Readers at Heart

“Sexy, sassy, delicious fun.”
—Shannon McKenna

“What a huge amount of fun!”
—Just Erotic Romance Reviews

“Steams up the pages.”
—Romance Junkies

Product Description
The author of Bad Girl Bridesmaids introduces three lucky women who are about to storm the royal gates and take on three unsuspecting princes…

Kylee, Lauren, and Shayla are modern- day ordinary women who would never meet the requirements for fabled princesses. Damsels in distress? Definitely not. Fairest in the land? They wish. Pure as snow? Not even close. Now, these women are about to get to know the wild side of royalty—and inspire princes to cast the crown aside and bare it all. Their encounters are royally erotic—and the happily ever after they reach is not exactly the fairytale ending you’d expect. It’s much, much hotter. One thing’s for sure—these princes never had it so good.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: NAL Trade (June 3, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451223993
• ISBN-13: 978-0451223999
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #801,072 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars amusing chick lit tales, June 3, 2008

By	Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews (#1 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Following the forced wedding of compatriot Prince Hugo to Princess Agnes, three other princes, Zain of Mataar, Santos of Isla de la Perla, and Rafael of Tiazza heed the warning of watching their steps in public. The threesome agrees that even though Agnes meets the bridal princess job description perfectly, they do not want to follow Hugo into an arranged boring marriage.

Zain is turning thirty shortly; his people believe deeply in the "Prince Curse" that the female who kisses him at midnight on his birthday is his bride; failure to comply means forfeiting his claim to the throne. To avoid ambitious females, Zain hides in an Illinois cornfield. Lauren is on a quest to achieve her life goals including kissing a prince; she does at the wrong time, but rejects Zain's offer of marriage though accepts his offer of bed time.

Santos is exiled to a class in Los Angeles hosted by an image consultant so that he can perform some of the duchy's diplomatic functions. Kaylee sees her project as converting a surfer-boy into a royal adult; Santos sees the project as converting his instructor from a born again workaholic into a frolicking beach bunny.

Rafael visits his brother Luca, who loves unacceptable Cathy the American commoner. He asks his friend Shayla to pretend to be a gold-digger chasing Luca so their family will accept Cathy as the lesser of two evils. However, Rafael turns jealous when Shayla performs in his mind too perfectly and Cathy dumps Rafael for concealing her from his family.

These four contemporary romances are amusing chick lit tales as the European royals are Americanized. Susanna Carr juggles are ensemble cast with dexterity so that none are the same and all are full blooded; albeit the guys in blue and the gals in red. Although there are a couple of key moments that are brushed aside but seem too significant to ignore, sub-genre fans will appreciate these middle class women who fit the anti-princess job description and their royal hunks falling in taboo love.

Harriet Klausner

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hot Spicey and Royal, June 30, 2008

By	Judy "book reader" (Cincinnati, ohio United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

Red-Hot and Royal by Susanna Carr lives up to its title. Its fun and sexy, a great read.

Three rich and single Princes each have their own thoughts on marriage after a peer is married in an arranged union.

Prince Zain of Mataar flees to middle American to avoid the prophecy of who he kisses on his 30th birthday. This woman will be his bride. Imagine his shock when a bold and sexy Lauren Ballinger steals a kiss at midnight. Lauren kisses Zain on a dare but she isn't becoming anyone's bride no matter how sexy the groom is... Zain pulls out all his princely charms to get Lauren to change her mind.

Shayla Pendley has been tutoring Prince Luca of Tiaza for months helping him to pull up his college grades. Luca now needs her help in keeping his older brother Rafael from finding out about his girlfriend, Cathy. Shayla agrees to appear to be in love with Luca to throw Rafael off the real girlfriend. Shayla is trying to be Luca's wild and inappropriate date so that when the real one is introduced Rafael will be relieved. But Shayla's reaction to Rafael is nothing short of explosive. Once Rafael learns the truth about Shayla her quiet calm world is turned upside down.

Image Consultant Kayla Dawes has her work cut out for her with Prince Santos of Isla de La Perla. Santos is a beach loving no suit kind of Prince. Kayla has been hired to groom him to wine and dine heads of states. Kayla has finally reinvented herself and can not afford to go back to her beach bunny summer loving ways. But Prince Santos is all about changing this buy the book consultant. The deals these two make are funny and down right sexy.

Red-Hot and Royal is a delight. Each Prince and his future bride are hot and sexy. Each story flows right into the next. You will find your self hoping to find your own Prince.

4.0 out of 5 stars Enchanting Review: Red-Hot and Royal, May 14, 2009

By	Enchanting Reviews "Lisa" - See all my reviews

RED-HOT AND ROYAL
SUSANNA CARR
Contemporary Romance
Signet Eclipse
Sensuality rating: Sweet

Rating: 4 Enchantments

Three princes, Prince Zain, Prince Rafael and Prince Santos are all attending the arranged wedding of their friend Prince Hugo. They all three agree that it would be horrible to be married off like that and they are all worried that they will be in the same situation.

It has been foretold that Prince Zain will marry the woman he kisses at Midnight the night of his 30th birthday. Not being a man interested in marriage he flees to the United States where no woman knows of this prophecy and cannot try to kiss him. In honor of her late friend Lauren and her friends decide to fill out her wishes. The one that Lauren draws is to kiss a prince. Well that is easier said than done. When she actually finds and kisses a prince she has no idea that she is now destined to be his wife.

Prince Rafael is visiting his brother Luca in the hopes of convincing him to dump his girlfriend and come back with him. Being royal means you must uphold a set of standards as to who you see and his brother is not following that very well. He is seeing this obnoxious, greedy woman named Shayla who Rafael cannot stop thinking about. However it is not because he hates her, it's because he wants her more than anything. Shayla is doing a favor for her friend Luca. Luca is dating Cathy the girl he truly loves but he knows that his family will not approve of her, so he asks Shayla to pretend to be his horrible girlfriend so when his family meets his true girlfriend they will love her in comparison to Shayla. Shayla agrees to help out a pal but ends up falling in love with his hunky older brother.

Prince Santos loves the beach life. The beach life loves him but it does not love the image he must uphold. So he gets an image consultant to help him become a more proper prince before he has to attend any social functions. Kylee has never met a client she could not transform into the proper gentlemen. But she has never had a client like Prince Santos either. He is exactly the kind of person she used to be. Can she change him or will he change her?

RED-HOT AND ROYAL was a very fast, funny enjoyable read. I think that Prince Zain's story was my favorite but I was confused as to how he was going to be able to take the throne if he did not marry Lauren. He offered to move her there to live with him but early on in the story he stated he will lose his princehood if he did not marry her. I also wonder what happened with her friends other goals, such as winning a million dollars. Did anyone complete the other tasks? I just think that there were a few pieces of the story that were not finished.

Prince Rafael was by far my favorite prince out of the three. He was so attracted to his brother's girlfriend and tried hard to ignore that attraction no matter how she tempted him. And boy did she tempt him. Prince Santos was too arrogant for my tastes and Kylee seemed to change too much in the end. I wish she would have upheld some of her own lifestyle instead of becoming a beach bunny again.

I really enjoyed how the story jumped from one prince to another even though they were not really related in any way. I was never big into contemporary romances but this one was great. The story was well written, with the exception of what I mentioned above, and the characters were funny and witty. I am looking forward to reading more of Mrs. Carr's stories.

Susanna Carr is the author of several contemporary romance novels. She also has a naughty side in which she writes under the name Jenesi Ash. To find out more about her and her stories please visit her website at http://www.susannacarr.com/

Jennifer
Enchanting Reviews
April 2009