La très catastrophique visite du zoo

Joël Dicker

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Princess Mikaela de Medreno Soliz wasn't supposed to fall in love. Not like this.

In the tropical island kingdom of Cayo Azul, the strong-willed, icy-cool, confident, and drop-dead gorgeous royal daughter is determined to show her parents that she is ready to lead. Instead, she is cursed with an ultimatum: Choose a wife to emphasize strength, unity, and readiness for the throne or risk not being taken seriously as a political power player. Mikaela has zero interest in being paraded around or paired off. After all, she's spent her life as the composed, commanding, wildly private, and enigmatic heiress to Cayo Azul, never expecting that real power might lie in the deep vulnerability beyond her sky-high walls.

Far from the sweeping white sand beaches and glittering cosmopolitan skyline of the luxury province hugging the royal estate, Isabella Acosta Ramon is at a crossroads in life. Working dead-end jobs and taking care of her struggling parents – including her alcoholic father – on the rural, deeply blue collar, and largely invisible side of the island, she accepts an invitation against her better judgment to accompany a childhood friend with deep connections to the burgeoning opposition to a rare and exclusive gala for the princesa. A royal gala that is definitely not supposed to change her life - until she locks eyes across the party with her and suddenly forgets how to breathe, that is.

Thrown into a high-stakes 75-day royal courtship with marriage as the ultimate end goal, Mikaela doesn't realize the brewing betrayal simmering within her own familia thanks to her brash tio Juan, the greedy political opponents organizing to bring down the Crown, or the stunning secret that Isabella is keeping. As moments together turn electric and passion scorches between them beneath the white-hot island sun, will Mikaela and Isabella trust themselves - and each other - enough to fall in love? Or will the gilded secrets and strategic agendas working against them unravel their romance before they have a chance to decide if si acepto (I do) is their future?

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