Highness Paperback – April 13, 2015

SPOILER ALERT: It's difficult to do a proper review without revealing some spoilers. For those who hate spoilers, you may want to skip this review.This was a different book written by Ms. Welch. Rather than a book about the Russian Mafia, she wrote one about the royal family and an American commoner - Shades of Harry and Meghan. Sorry Harry and Meghan just married this weekend and you can't help but wonder if that was the reason for the book. I know it takes a while to write a book and Ms. Welch said perhaps they took inspiration from her book. I don't buy it.Nevertheless, this was a good romance. We find out a lot about Michael, the Prince and Hope, a blind artist n separate chapters. They both found out that their lovers really didn't love them. Hers because they were in the South and he, Reagan, couldn't be with a black woman. Of course that came out when she caught him with another woman. Did he just discover she was black after introducing her to his fa.mily? She rushed from the house into a terrible storm.Hope had come to Hernado, Mississippi to care for her elderly grandparents who both passed (not past). She reminded there painting even after she goes blind.Michael finds out that his fiancee was only marrying him because he would be king. I don't know why he was so shocked. He should have known she wasn't in love. He went on a drunken sex spree which made all of the papers and it was decided that he needed to go someplace where he was unknown - Hernando, Mississippi. His house was right next door to Hope.Michael meet Hope by delivering her mail to her. Sparks fly and in no time, they develop feelings for each other. Michael w!as looking for someone who didn't want him because he was a Prince and very good looking. Hope didn't know anything about him and she certainly has no idea of what he looked like. Things happened so that the Prince ended up taking care of her. The press was out in full force trying to find the Prince even offering $100,000 for anyone offering proof of where the Prince can be found. Not wanting Hope to be blindsided, no pun intended. Michael tells her who he is and about the press coverage.Does Hope regain her sight and how does she react to him being a Prince? Michael is summoned home by his brother, the Prince and his mother, the Queen. Does he leave Hope and does he renounce his title? Even though this is a two part series and I knew that when I decided to read the book. This book ends in a cliffhanger. Series don't have to end in cliffhangers therefore I was disappointed. You're forced to buy the second book if you want to find out what happened. You really want to know!The book is very good I loved how protective they both were of each other. They both were open and honest with each other. The minor characters were honorable people with courage - his guards as well as the woman who originally took care of her. Read the book but you may want wait for the second book. I've learned that it takes a while for Ms. Welch to complete a book. It doesn't help because her books are full of grammatical errors. She said the second book was coming out this summer. I'm certainly not holding my breath.

What can I say, Latrivia is the master in her game, which is why I'm a fan of her books. This book is part of her The Lonely Hearts Series, and another installment that takes you into the world of British Royalty. Being apart of the fabulous world of the rich and famous is not what it's cracked up to be, according to Prince Michael. Then there is the complete opposite; Hope Daniels, a struggling artist, introverted and recently broken by an ex-boyfriend, and recovering for a near fatal accident.This book is in the true Latrivia fashion, funny, sexy, intriguing and the Alpha-male is hot. In addition to giving you a love story, showing human compassion , you are cheering on the male hero, because he has a soul and the female hero because she has intelligence. It's a page turner, due to the forces that outside of the relationship, hindering what is truth. I recommend this read because everyone one needs a book related to finding a "soul mate".

Let me start off by saying, I really did not know what expect with this book , being as I really did not like the last book in Lonely hearts series, but this book was a surprise and it was better than the last book in this series. Michael is the pretty boy screw up of the British Royal Family. His recent antics have landed him in hot water with the crown and he has to hide out until the storm blows over. So Prince Michael heads to the States to hide in the small Mississippi town of Hernando and finds what he has been looking for. Hope Daniels is a young eccentric artist who knows all about pain and lost, when she finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman and it sends he out driving into a rain storm, what happens next is life altering and when her new neighbor stops by neither of them will ever be the same.Not a bad read but not a great one either, it had some good points that keep me interested, like will Hope regain he sight? Will Micheal give in to his family's demands? and the whole Royal dynamic was new & interesting to me but I just can't say I love this book.There were things that I just wasn't feeling, for instance, they had sex & fell in love really fast, they had just met like two days before. Then the whole I will not give her up no matter what, he had only known her 2 weeks at the time and he is willing to give up being King of England for her? that's a bit much.To me it was not as good or believable as other books in the series like the Grunt( which I loved) and Finding Opa! I find that most people either really love this author or hate her. I must say I love a lot of her work. I have read all of her books and while I really love some, others were just ok. That's the beauty of reading to me, just because you love an author that does not mean you will love everything they do and that's ok. I will still read and look for Ms. Nelsons work because she is very good writer in my eyes, ever though this was not one of my favorites, I sure some of her other fans loved it.

This was such a good story from beginning to end I was hooked. I could not put this book down until I read the end. The characters were very likeable and the chemistry between them was off the charts. The secondary characters were also likeable I would love to see Geoff and and Bree with a story and to get to know their characters more. This wasn't a love at first sight story because as you see Hope our heroin lost her sight so she didn't know who Michael our prince in hiding was or what he looked like. This story was about Michael escaping the day to day drama of being a royal who is constantly in the public eye for his not so quiet life style and for Hope it was about learning to live with her new handicap and opening herself up to love again. This was a very well written story easy to follow well edited and enjoyable. I can't wait to read the next part of this story to see what happens next. A very good story by Ms Nelson.