Undercover Princess by Connie Glynn

Book Summary

When fairy tale obsessed Lottie Pumpkin starts at the infamous Rosewood Hall, she is not expecting to share a room with the Crown Princess of Maradova, Ellie Wolf. Due to a series of lies and coincidences, 14-year-old Lottie finds herself pretending to be the princess so that Ellie can live a more normal teenage life.

Lottie is thrust into the real world of royalty - a world filled with secrets, intrigue and betrayal. She must do everything she can to help Ellie keep her secret, but with school, the looming Maradovian ball and the mysterious new boy Jamie, she'll soon discover that reality doesn't always have the happily ever after you'd expect...

Lottie has spent her life trying to live up to her ideal of a princess, she has her motto to be kind, brave and unstoppable. Lottie promised her mother, before she died, that she would be happy and do her best to go to Rosewood Hall school. However we don't yet know why this is so important! She's so determined to keep her promise and through her hard work she manages to get a rare scholarship, though she never expected that she would have a real princess as a roommate and that she would end up pretending to be her. Ellie is exactly what Lottie wants to be, a real princess. But Ellie is trying to escape her duties and wants nothing more than to be ordinary like Lottie! The two girls are in some ways opposites and others very similar, this makes them perfect for each other and their growing friendship is wonderful to read.

This is the first book in the Rosewood Chronicles series and I could already tell there would be plenty more to the story and to the mystery of Rosewood Hall.

I've just come back from Madrid and had an amazing Mimosa at the hotel there. To recreate it, first of all rim a glass with sugar by dipping the edge of the glass in a saucer of grand marnier and then in sugar. Pour the remaining grand marnier from the saucer into the glass with a couple of ice cubes. Then fill the glass half with champagne and half with orange juice. To finish, add a drizzle of grenadine.