The Marine & The Princess
by Cathie Linz

To: King Leopold

Princess Vanessa Von Volzemburg

Your Highness, I’ve been assigned to guard Princess Vanessa while she’s traveling incognito in America. But I don’t enjoy spying on her.

Vanessa is far from the spoiled princess I expected. She is bold and adventurous as well as lovely and vulnerable—a woman who craves a life free from her royal obligations. But she understands she must return and marry a man she doesn’t love.

Vanessa will be safe while she’s under my care. But also know that I cannot promise to shelter her from the world, or even from myself....

Originally published December 2001 as a mass market paperback in Silhouette Romance #1561.

Cathie Linz's Bio

Cathie Linz is an award-winning, USA Today bestselling author of contemporary romances. Since leaving her career as Head of Acquisitions in a university law library, she has had over sixty romances published worldwide in nearly twenty languages. The Chicago Tribune describes her work as “supremely satisfying,” while Library Journal describes her books as “Heartwarming and hilarious...” Her book BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY was selected by Booklist as one of the Top Ten Romances of the Year. Romantic Times has given Cathie its prestigious Storyteller of the Year Award in addition to nominating her for a Career Achievement Award as well as several Reviewers’ Choice Awards. Cathie is also a contributor to DANGEROUS MEN AND ADVENTUROUS WOMEN: Romance Writers on the Appeal of the Romance which won the distinguished Susan Koppleman Award. In 1995, Cathie received Romance Writers of America’s highest service award — the National Service Award — for her work educating others about the romance genre. For over a dozen years she was RWA’s Library Liaison and is considered to be a leading authority on the romance genre, having spoken at numerous library association and writers’ conferences nationwide. Her most recent releases from Berkley are:
TEMPTED AGAIN
LUCK BE A LADY
MAD, BAD AND BLONDE
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY
BAD GIRLS DON’T
GOOD GIRLS DO