Margaretha has always been a romantic, and hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, is destined to be her one true love. But then an injured man is brought to Hagenheim Castle, claiming to be an English lord who was attacked by Claybrook and left for dead. And only Margaretha—one of the few who speaks his language—understands the wild story.
Margaretha finds herself unable to pass Colin’s message along to her father, the duke, and convinces herself “Lord Colin” is just an addled stranger. Then Colin retrieves an heirloom she lost in a well, and asks her to spy on Claybrook as repayment. Margaretha knows she could never be a spy—not only is she unable to keep anything secret, she’s sure Colin is completely wrong about her potential betrothed. Though when Margaretha overhears Claybrook one day, she discovers her romantic notions may have been clouding her judgment about not only Colin but Claybrook as well. It is up to her to save her father and Hagenheim itself from Claybrook’s wicked plot.
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Violence - 2/5
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Summary
The Princess Spy by Melanie Dickerson is the fifth novel in her Fairy Tale Romance series. This is my least favorite of the five. I don\'t know if it\'s because I have grown bored with the premise behind the series--I don\'t think so--or because the storyline for this novel was not as robust and rather repetitious from the previous novels in the series. I did like that she used this novel to tie in the seemingly \"oddball\" novel of the series. The second book in the series, The Merchant\'s Daughter is set in the same time period but in England, not Germany like the other four novels. In addition, the other four novels in some way revolve around someone in the Gerstenberg family, whereas the second novel is about the Lord le Wyse. However, about two-thirds of the way into the novel The Princess Spy, Ms. Dickerson introduces that which connects the novels. I was glad because it would have bugged me if she had left just one novel in the series to be unconnected from the others. Albeit a minimal connection, it was at least a thread of connection--this is a place where she could have improved her story by making the connection stronger. There continues to be a strong biblical worldview presented throughout the plot line. Suspenseful and romantic. An overall good read that can stand alone without having read the four previous books in the collection.
Sexual Very chaste relationships.