76 parts Complete Metty Griffin, working her way through college, meets Alexei de Moreno, cousin to Crown Prince Marco of Almurias, when Marco is banished to Charleston for misbehavior by his grandfather, Prince Sebastian of Almurias.
Alexei is recovering from injuries and PTSD received in the training during his military training and is obsessed by his feelings for the beautiful Jessica, who is pursuing Marco relentlessly. Jessica follows Marco to Charleston. Alexei begins to heal, become disenchanted with Jessica and begins to fall in love with Metty.
Metty feelings for Alexei turn into love, but she is not sure she can love someone so different from her working-class family.
She decides the relationship must end when he returns to Almurias, and to be with him while she may. Marco dallies with the lovely, venal Madison, as Jessica waits for the opportunity to capture Marco and become a princess.