I love royal books and this one hit the spot! It was sweet and loveable. I fell in love with the characters so I deff recommend

Where is the story set? Who is Dr. Domenico di Rossi? What do we learn about him? Who is Dr. Emilia Featherstone? Who is Lucas Beaufort? Wha thappens when a trama comes in with multiple patients? Who is Giada? What happens when she goes home? What is going on with Lucas? What do Giada and Domenico start realizing at the ball? Who is Roberto? Why is he in Seattle? What happens after a car accident? One truly defining moment changes the course of the story! Read and see what happens!

This is Emelia and Don’s story. They were always rivals starting in medical school. Now they are doctors at a Seattle hospital. He is a prince. They fell in love but it was a bumpy road. I loved the book. I can’t wait for the next one in the series.

4.5 Stars

“It was every doctor’s worst nightmare to have members of their own family brought into an emergency room.”

Dr. Dom di Rossi is a secret prince. He has somehow managed to keep his true identity under wraps for years. In doing so, he’s moved to the United States, gone to medical school, and became Head of the Emergency Department at Seattle General Hospital. His dream life and his destiny collide when his father, sister, royal driver, and bodyguard are rushed into the ER after an accident that could have killed them all. Dom knew his family was coming for a planned surgery for his father, but he has no idea why they’re weeks early.

Emilia Featherstone and Dom go back years, to their time in medical school. However, neither truly knows the other. Emilia doesn’t know Dom’s past, or that he’s a real prince. Dom doesn’t know that Emilia would give anything to have a family and a place to call home.

When Dom finally tells Emilia his truth, she isn’t happy that he lied about himself to her. But she knows he needs a friend and while they’ve never been friends, she’s willing to be there for him. Soon, their attraction takes over and against their better judgment, they fall in love.

Alison Roberts is a new to me author. I loved everything about Falling for the Secret Prince. I read the Royal Christmas at Seattle General series out of order, reading Neurosurgeon’s Christmas to Remember by Traci Douglass first. The stories take place almost simultaneously. When I saw Dom and Emilia on page together, I knew I had to read their story. Alison has written great characters and managed to put in fun moments that leave you laughing. She’s managed to pull at my heartstrings and make me sigh. I’m definitely looking forward to reading more books from her. And I can’t wait to see how the rest of this series unfolds.

Workplace enemies Emilia and Dom discover their strong attraction to each other and eventually work through their individual demons together in Falling For the Secret Prince. As Emilia comes to better understand Dom's family loyalty, her own professional competitiveness slowly turns into compassion. Although it's a bit too heavily set in the hospital itself, Roberts' plot flows smoothly and the character growth seems authentic.

Good slow-burn romance. It wasn't quite enemies-to-lovers, nor was it friends-to-lovers but somewhere in between. Dom and Emilia first met in medical school, where they were fiercely competitive with each other. Since then, they have ended up at the same hospital, where Dom is the head of Emergency Medicine and Emilia, a talented orthopedic surgeon. Their working relationship is one of mutual respect accompanied by the same teasing banter that got them through med school.

I liked both Dom and Emilia. Emilia is determined to be the best at what she does, driven by the memories of her upbringing. Her focus is on her career, especially after her last relationship crashed and burned. Dom is also driven to be the best, especially since he feels that he is on borrowed time. Nobody around him knows that he is the Crown Prince of a small Mediterranean country and will eventually have to return home to take up his responsibilities. That day arrives sooner than Dom anticipated when his father and sister end up in his ER after a car crash.

I loved the development of the romance between Dom and Emilia. Though she doesn't know why Emilia knows Dom well enough to see that these two patients particularly shake him. When she catches him at a vulnerable moment, Dom confesses the truth to her. Initially angry and hurt at being lied to for all those years, Emilia soon understands his reasons. As Dom deals with his father's recovery, it is a great relief to him that Emilia knows the truth. For the first time in years, he can be entirely himself with someone. This creates a shift in their relationship, and they find themselves growing closer. There are some sweet scenes of the two of them together and the slow building of the sparks between them. Neither believes anything can come of it.

I ached for Dom, who dreads giving up the career he loves for a role he doesn't want. He'd rather stay in Seattle and see where things might go with Emilia. Emilia, who has no family of her own, reminds him that family is everything. I also hurt for Emilia. She realizes that she loves him, and has for a long time, but believes a woman with her background is not the type of woman he needs. I wondered how they would overcome those obstacles. Advice came from an unexpected source, and I loved seeing Dom embrace it. His big moment with Emilia was sweet and romantic. I can't wait to read the rest of the series and hope to see more of them.