The Princess and the Prepper

By Barbara Elsborg

Lili knows she shouldn’t accept a lift from a stranger, but as usual, she leaps from one disaster to another. The consequence is being stuck in the middle of a snowy nowhere wearing next to nothing, and this time, being unprepared looks likely to kill her.

Grant lives in an isolated cabin for a reason. He’s prepared for almost every eventuality. The last thing he wants is some needy person interfering with his ordered life. When he gets into bed with a woman he rescued from certain death—just to warm her up, of course—Grant discovers something else he’s not prepared for. His heart opening.

A match made in heaven, until secrets come knocking. Lili is not just a simple woman in need of shelter, and unless she can survive dealing with her background, it doesn’t seem possible the happiness that’s fallen out of a blizzard can heal Grant’s own past.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Decadent Publishing
• Release date: Dec 21, 2012
• ISBN: 9781613334508

Barbara Elsborg

Barbara Elsborg lives in Kent in the south-east of England. She always wanted to be a spy, but having confessed to everyone without them even resorting to torture, she decided it was not for her. Volcanology scorched her feet. A morbid fear of sharks put paid to marine biology. So instead, she spent several years successfully selling cyanide.After dragging up two rotten, ungrateful children and frustrating her sexy, devoted, wonderful husband (who can now stop twisting her arm) she finally has time to conduct an affair with an electrifying plugged-in male, her laptop.Barbara's written around fifty novels, a mixture of MM, MMM and MF. They cover a whole range of genres - contemporary, paranormal, suspense, sci fi etc. She likes to write about quirky heroines, bad boys, and weird paranormal creatures, and she hopes her books are as much fun to read as they were to write.

Reviews for The Princess and the Prepper

[kindleromance · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Fast, easy to read, steamy story. The main characters were a bit depressing with both of their backgrounds having so much sadness in them. The insta-love was a bit hard to buy but somewhat plausible. The biggest problem I had with this story is that it really needed to be a full-length novel. The author had all of these great issues to work with, and interesting characters to develop, and it was just too much for a short novella. We didn't get to see the romance develop into a believable love match because Lila spent too much time with the trucker and her abusive boyfriend. We also didn't get to understand why Grant would disappear for a year, and why his family would let him get away with it. There was one other point that really bugged me and made me not love Grant. It was a small part of the story, but created some major issues in my mind. Grant accuses his mother of not liking his deceased wife because she was black. But then he agrees with his Mom when she defends herself, and admits that wasn't the issue. Why on earth would he just throw out a comment suggesting that he thinks his Mom is a racist without any reason when he hasn't talked to her in a year? What kind of person does that make Grant to accuse her like that when he knew it wasn't true?