Best Made Plans

When Floras childhood friend Hope asks her to design the menu for her upcoming royal wedding, Flora is quick to say yes. Hasebury Hall, the wedding venue may be dilapidated, but it has all the kitchen space she needs, and shell happily make do even though the Halls owner and brooding brother-of-the-bride, Max Kennard, is constantly underfoot. Shes known Max for yearshad a crush on him in her teens and might have the teeniest wee soft spot for him stillWhen his sister Hope announces that shes going to marry a prince, Max is taken aback to discover that the royal wedding will not take place in the majestic principality of San Michele but at their run-down Wiltshire family home, Hasebury Hall. Now Max has to fix up the manor, let royals and security officials have the run of the place, and find a suitable woman to accompany him to the wedding and all the other ridiculous events that surround it.Max is single; Floras single. They could pair up and go together. What harm can a little pretense do if all it involves is a glamorous trip to San Michele and smiling together at the wedding itself? Apparently, a lot Soon, its hard to remember whats real and whats not.