Scott Point (below) and Long Harbour on Salt Spring Island. 11) to British royal Prince Edward and his wife, Monica Red, the Duchess of Fairfax, who seem to have taken a keen interest in the luxurious property next to Piper’s humble cottage. He is none other than the internet-famous “Broody Bodyguard and Sexy Secret Agent” (p. And, when this haughty, brooding, sexy man introduces himself as Harrison Cole, personal protection officer “y order of Her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom” (p. He isn’t a police officer - she’s certain of that - but he does seem familiar. 8), blocking her path and refusing her entry unless she provides the proper identification to prove her place of residence - identification, of course, that now lives at the bottom of a garbage bin at her school. But, to her dismay, “a very tall, broad-shouldered tree of a man stand in the middle of the road” (p.
Intent on avoiding the surmounting chaos in the city centre even though she needs a new driver’s licence and despite her interest in the high-profile people, who inspire those rumours, Piper climbs into her Garbage Pail of a vehicle and heads toward her home at the tip of Scott Point. That semi-reclusive lifestyle, however, is anything but average and is quickly upended when a couple of high-profile strangers are rumoured to be in town. 8), she is happy with this semi-reclusive and wholly average lifestyle. Aside from the queasy stomachs of her young students and despite the humiliating gibes from her ex-fiancé, Piper has found a quiet existence on the fringes of Salt Spring Island’s small community, and living in “an adorable cedar-shingle three bedroom that used to be the servants’ quarters to the mansion next to it” (p.
This is only a glimpse into the exciting - but not always glamorous - life of second-grade teacher Piper Evans, who spends her free time reading and podcasting about romance novels. 1) that had been inconveniently placed near the trashcan and that is now destroyed along with all its contents (including her wallet). 5), Karina Halle’s The Royals Next Door begins with the unpleasant image of seven-year-old Nicky Graves losing his lunch in our protagonist’s handbag. Set on Salt Spring Island, “a small yet eccentric haven between Vancouver Island and the mainland ” (p. Toronto: Penguin Random House Canada (Berkley), 2021
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