its hard being the secret best friend of the next king, for Tess and James their friendship spanning twelve years changes when Tess comes back from the boarding school she attended for three years, to see James as no longer a boy but a man. Causing her to ask herself is it possible to be best friends with a future king, and an even more impossible question is it possible to love him too.

Sue Snell is pretty much your average popular girl. She has the looks, the friends, and the boyfriend. But that is all taken away when she gets her boyfriend to take Carrie White to prom. This story is told in Sue's point of view of "the black prom" incident.