{"product_id":"9781402269981","title":"A Royal Pain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/em\u003e Bestseller!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A delightful love story...worth reading again and again.\"—\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e Starred Review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA life of royalty seems so attractive...until you're invited to live it...\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmart, ambitious, and career driven, Bronte Talbot started following British royalty in the gossip mags only to annoy her intellectual father. But her fascination has turned into a not-so-secret guilty pleasure. When she starts dating a charming British doctoral student, she teases him unmercifully about the latest scandals of his royal countrymen, only to find out—to her horror!!—that she's been having a fling with the nineteenth Duke of Northrop, and now he wants to make her...\u003cem\u003ea duchess?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spite of her frivolous passion for all things royal, Bronte isn't at all sure she wants the reality. Is becoming royalty every American woman's secret dream, or is it a nightmare of disapproving dowagers, paparazzi, stiff-upper-lip tea parties, and over-the-top hats?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Laugh-out-loud funny with super sexy overtones.\"—Catherine Bybee, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eWife By Wednesday\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Take one sparky, sailor-mouthed American girl and one handsome English aristocrat. Put them together and watch the sparks fly. Sizzling fun!\"— Jill Mansell, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eNadia Knows Best\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A whole new twist on trans-Atlantic romance-sexy, fresh, and delightfully different.\"—Susanna Kearsley, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestselling author of\u003cem\u003e Mariana\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sourcebooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127392289008,"sku":"9781402269981","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781402269981_p0.jpg?v=1763715223","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781402269981","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}