Download or read book The Princess Goes West written by Nan Ryan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-10-23 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHer kingdom bankrupt, a princess travels to the New World in search of a fortune/divDIV When Princess Marlena’s father, the benevolent ruler of the tiny kingdom of Hartz-Coburg, dies, he leaves behind nothing but a famous name and a mountain of debt. To fill her beloved nation’s empty coffers, Marlena has two choices: marry or beg. Although she’s considered one of Europe’s great beauties, Marlena has a fiery temper and frightens off all but the most repulsive of the international nobility. Too proud to surrender to a man she does not love, Marlena goes to America to raise the money, arriving just in time to see the stock market crash of 1880./divDIV /divDIVPenniless and desperate, the princess decides to find investors among the gold-rush millionaires of the American West. Instead she finds misery, danger, and a handsome stranger with a temper rough enough to match her own. To make it home, Europe’s toughest princess will have to find her inner cowgirl./div