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.

I had thought this living arrangement would be simple: one girl, two boys, living together but leading separate lives. I'd vastly underestimated how easily and rapidly those lives could fuse together. I felt nauseous and torn apart, my body standing on a fuzzy carpet floor, my heart reaching for the kind of love I knew I'd never had, my mind screaming somewhere in between. Maybe I didn't know what I was getting into.