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“Royal Summer” by Kass Morgan is for older YA readers, as Hannah, the protagonist, has graduated high school and is on her way to college in the fall. She plans to spend the summer in Scotland working as an intern for her favorite author. When her plans are derailed, she has to figure something out—and quick. Before she knows it, she becomes acquainted with Finn, a handsome, irritatingly charming stranger. When she meets him and his friends one night and he offers to help her, she wonders if it’s too good to be true. Telling her he can help her out with a new job and a place to stay seems like more than she could hope for, but he does deliver, finding her a cottage to stay in and work at a gift shop at Inveresk, a castle estate.

Finn tells her he has a friend of the family who has helped her out, but she soon finds out that he is the prince of England, and while his family is off somewhere else, they’ve left him in Scotland to reform his ways and do better to live up to the family name.

Hannah soon finds herself falling for Finn, and Finn seems equally taken with Hannah. However, throw in a royal visit, coupled with his ex-girlfriend being part of the group of people who comes with his family, and a recipe for disaster is quickly running through Hannah’s mind. It doesn’t help that part of the reason she left her home in the Midwest of the United States was to get away from her former best friend, Gigi, and ex-boyfriend, Dean. She has trust issues, and the fact that Finn is who he is and he’s disarmingly intriguing and wonderful to her, makes her wary of what might be.

The story is for older readers, but it serves up quite a bit of interest, intrigue, and romance. Stories set in other countries are always fun to delve into, and this is no exception.