The last thing Amanda Harte expected when she traveled to the tiny principality of Carnevale for the wedding of her best friend, Princess Lucia Alexandra, was to fall for the bride's bad boy brother, Gaetano. But that's exactly what happened, almost from the moment he literally ran into her as she waited for the royal ferry.

After losing her parents in a tragic car accident, Amanda had closed herself off from any emotional entanglements, choosing instead to throw herself into her work, and going out on the occasional date. Until her arrival in Carnevale she'd pretty much convinced herself that was enough.

After he renounced the throne of Carnevale so he could marry a commoner, Gaetano discovered the woman he loved didn't want a prince without a kingdom. Hurt and bitter, he was determined to play his way across Europe as the bad boy prince. No ties, no complications. Just fun. Until he met Amanda.

Thrown together in their roles as best man and maid of honor, they slowly began to lower their guard and consider the possibility of something more. But will the pain of their past losses keep them from taking that final leap into opening their hearts?