Paper Princess is marketed as Young Adult, but I think it's safe to say that it's for the older teens due to some of its sexy time content.

I've never really been one to take a gander down the New Adult hallway. Paper Princess was honestly like a pleasant little book holiday for me. She does her best to convince herself she can do it, but a girl can only take so much. Ella is determinded to do her two years and go to college - something she can only afford with the Royal's money. The boys are cruel and have a hold over the students at their posh, rich kid school - they have no qualms about turning everyone against Ella and transforming her life into a living hell. The Royal sons all have one thing in common: Hating Ella and doing their best to force her out of the family. It's in her new home where Ella finds that Callum has five brutish sons. Ella decides that it's in her best interest to go along with Callum. Until one day a mysterious man comes to find her, claiming to be her fathers best friend and her new guardian.

To stay afloat Ella follows in her mothers footstep and takes up stripping in order to pay for rent and food. Doing her damndest to stay out of the foster system Ella forges her mother's signature in order to attend high school.

However, when Ella's mother dies from cancer she's all on her own. Ever since she was born she's been on the move alongside her mother who does her best to make the next buck. It’s like nothing Ella has ever experienced, and if she’s going to survive her time in the Royal palace, she’ll need to learn to issue her own Royal decrees.Įlla has lived a hard life. He says she doesn’t belong with the Royals. Each Royal boy is more magnetic than the last, but none as captivating as Reed Royal, the boy who is determined to send her back to the slums she came from. Until Callum Royal appears, plucking Ella out of poverty and tossing her into his posh mansion among his five sons who all hate her. After her mother’s death, Ella is truly alone. She’s spent her whole life moving from town to town with her flighty mother, struggling to make ends meet and believing that someday she’ll climb out of the gutter. Published April 4th 2016 by Everafter Platinumįrom strip clubs and truck stops to southern coast mansions and prep schools, one girl tries to stay true to herself.Įlla Harper is a survivor-a pragmatic optimist.

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