ARC REVIEW THe Highlander's Princess Bride by Vanessa Kelly

It feels like I have been waiting on this book forever. The final book in Vanessa Kelly's Improper Princesses series, The Highlander's Princess Bride is everything I hoped it would be. Victoria is not your typical princess and not just because she's the by blow of the Prince Regent but unlike some of her other siblings she has never been revealed as his daughter. She has lived a quiet life first as an innkeeper's granddaughter and then as a governess but when she gets into some trouble, like defending herself and killing a man, she knows the only people who can help her is Sir. Dominic and her half brother. Sir. Dominic has always been a part of her life he was one of the few that knows her parentage and he's also the one who helped her secure a proper education for becoming a governess. Dominic and Aden decide it might be best for her if she goes away at least until they can handle the situation. Luckily Dominic knows just where to send her.

Castle Kinglas, is in Scotland and is for the time being Victoria's sanctuary not that the Earl of Arnprior knows that Dominic and Aden advised her not to tell anyone the truth as to why she's there. What she finds there almost has her running back to London, but Victoria is stronger than that, and her young charge needs her, so what if the Grandfather is crazy and the twins are out of control and one brother is so hostile or that she is impossibly attracted to the Laird, Nicholas Kendrick the Earl of Arnprior. Victoria is going to stick with it, afterall where else has she to go.

Nick didn't know what to expect when Sir. Dominic said he knew a governess who could help him out, not only teach his youngest brother but also instill some society manners into his other brothers so they can marry proper young ladies. He blames himself for the way his brother turned out after what had happened Nick joined the army and fought in the war joined by his other brother Royal. When he finally came home he found his twin brothers, Graeme and Grant, running amuck the estates falling apart due in part to Angus the grandfather, and his youngest brother, Kade, ill. The only really sane ones in the bunch are Braden the studious brother who is in school to become a doctor and the adorable housekeeper Taffy. Throughout it all Nick and Victoria fall in love. She's even thinking of telling Nick the truth but the truth catches up to her before she can tell him. Will the truth of what she did and the fact that she hid the truth from him keep them apart?

Overall, it was a good story and great characters. I can't wait to see what Vanessa Kelly has for us next.