In Lost Treasure, Captive Princess by Katherine Bone Carolina Beugre has not gotten over being abandoned by her mother and always compared to her mother by her father. Now as an adult, she is a jewelry designer and all shewants to do is to sell the emerald necklace she made, copied after a necklace her uncle owns, so she can have enough money to open her own jewelry store Fit for a Princess. But selling her necklace she named Grace will not be as simple as she thinks. She first has to fly to Italy and then make the sale to the person who bid above all others for her necklace.
Gian-Paulo Montovanni is an Italian prince on a mission. He is being asked to produce an heir and before he can do that he must propose to a woman using the famous emerald necklace worn by generations of princesses. Unfortunately, one indiscretion from his mother resulted in her loosing the necklace in blackmail.
Now, after many years looking Gian-Paulo has the first clue to the whereabouts of the necklace when Carolina puts on sale her copy of it. So he bids above all others to make sure she comes to him with the necklace. To his surprise and initial annoyance, Carolina puts on the necklace during the masquerade, and only the woman he was to choose as his fiancé was to have the necklace around her neck.
And so the adventures of Carolina and Gian-Paulo begin, for now he will make sure he keeps her in the palace close to him before she tells everyone who she really is and what she is doing there. Months of having her followed and investigated have only opened more of an appetite to learn more of her than he thought, and now he has her at his disposal in the palace as his fiancé in front of his people.
Carolina and Gian-Paulo will have to open themselves to love and let their emotions show if they want to be together. Gian-Paulo will have to learn to trust others and show more emotion if he wants Carolina to believe that he has fallen in love with her. While Carolina will have to believe that she is worthy of love and that she is nothing like her mother as her father used to make her believe.
Lost Treasure, Captive Princess is a fun and sweet romance about finding love in the most unexpected person and place.
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Book Info: Publisher: Crimson Romance (March 4, 2013)
Gian-Paulo Montovanni, an Italian prince, must produce an heir. But before he can do that, he must locate his mother’s emerald necklace, stolen twenty years earlier. In order to get the original, Gian-Paulo allies himself with an American jeweler who has reproduced the necklace in elaborate detail. Suspicious of her involvement, he lures her to Italy to finalize the deal. But the American puts on the necklace, forcing Gian-Paulo to pretend she’s his chosen princess. Thrust into public chaos, he must participate in wicked deceptions if he’s to achieve the one thing he wants most in the world: to ensure his mother’s legacy lives on forever.
Abandoned by her mother as a child, Carolina Beugre wants to open a jewelry shop in downtown Atlanta but she must sell her greatest creation in order to fund the store. She accepts the first offer for Grace, the twenty carat emerald necklace recreated from one of her uncle’s silent auction pieces. The exchange is scheduled on a tiny provincial island during a masque ball. But her actions set off a chain of events that lead to a fake betrothal to a man she doesn’t know. While she’s refashioned for the role, payment for the gems is held hostage. Now Carolina stands to lose everything, including her freedom.
Sensuality Level: Sensual