Showing posts with label Jokes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jokes. Show all posts

Monday, 28 April 2025

21 May: Wait Staff jokes

Today is National Waitresses/Waiters Day, so here are 10 jokes featuring waiters and waitresses:

  1. Waiter, waiter, there’s a dead fly in my glass of wine. Well, you asked for something with a little body in it.

  2. Waitress: Welcome to the Karma Cafe. Customer: What do you sell? Waitress: Just desserts.

  3. Waiter: Good evening, sir. Would you like to hear the specials? Customer: Yes, please. Waiter: This town (ahh ahh) is comin' like a ghost town…

  4. Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup. Yes Sir, it’s the spider’s day off.

  5. Waiter, there’s a fly in my ice cream. Yes, I know, they’re going in for winter sports this year.

  6. Waiter, I’m in a hurry – will my pancakes be long?” “No, Sir, they’ll be round.”

  7. Waiter, there’s a button in my salad. Waiter: It must have come off while the salad was dressing.

  8. Waiter! Waiter! This coffee tastes like mud! Waiter: I’m not surprised, sir, it was ground only a few minutes ago.

  9. Waiter! Waiter! There’s a fly in my soup! Waiter: Shush sir, or they’ll all want one.

  10. Customer: There is a fly in the butter! Waiter: Yes sir, it’s a butterfly!

 



Beta

(Combat Team Series #2)


Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?

Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.

Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream. 

Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.

Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.

Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.


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Thursday, 30 January 2025

31 January: The Feast of Great Typos

Today is the Feast of Great Typos. Here are 10 great typos:

  1. Strikebound holidaymakers were kept waiting six hours for the jerry. Then it was filled to capacity. Southern Echo

  2. The strike leaders had called a meeting that was to have been held in a bra near the factory, but it was found to be too small to hold them all. South London Press

  3. A public enquiry will be held in Colchester on October 23 in a bed to resolve the issue. Essex County Standard

  4. Her dark hair is attractively set, and she has fair skin which, she admits ruefully, comes out in "a mass of freckles" at the first hint of sin. Essex County Standard

  5. Hold the bottle firmly and remove the cook as gently as possible. Women's Own

  6. Queen Victoria herself graciously pissed over the magnificent edifice. The Times on the opening of the Forth Bridge

  7. The storm was described as one of the worst spring onslaughts in memory to plague Massachusetts, triggering traffic accidents including a 50 cat pile up south of Boston.

  8. You can dramatically reduce your chances if a heart attack, stroke or kidney disease by eating live cavemen, says a noted professor. Burton Advertiser

  9. Michael Green of Crimond, Main Road, Danbury was fined £3 for causing an obstruction with his ear in Maldon High Street.

  10. The annual Christmas party at the Ashley Street school was hell yesterday afternoon.



Beta

(Combat Team Series #2)


Steff was abducted by an evil alien race, the Orbs, at fourteen. Used as a weapon for years, he eventually escapes, but his problems are just beginning. How does a man support himself when his only work experience is a paper round and using an Orb bio-integrated gun?

Warlord is an alien soldier who knows little but war. When the centuries-old conflict which ravaged his planet ends, he seeks out another world where his skills are still relevant. There are always wars on Earth, it seems. However, none of Earth's powerful armies want him.

Natalie has always wanted to visit England and sees a chance to do so while using her martial arts skills, but there are sacrifices she must make in order to fulfil her dream. 

Maggie resorted to crime to fund her sister's medical care. She uses her genetic variant abilities to gain access to the rooms of wealthy hotel guests. The Ballards look like rich pickings, but they are not what they seem. When Maggie targets them, little does she know that she is walking into a trap.

Hotel owner Hamilton Lonsdale puts together a combat team to pit against those of other multi-millionaires. He recruits Warlord, Natalie, Maggie and Steff along with a trained gorilla, a probability-altering alien, a stockbroker whose work of art proved to be much more than he'd bargained for, a marketing officer who can create psionic forcefields, a teleporting member of the landed gentry, and a socially awkward fixer. This is Combat Team Beta.

Steff never talks about his time with the Orbs, until he finds a woman who lived through it, too. Steff believes he has finally found happiness, but it is destined to be short-lived. He is left with an unusual legacy which he and Team Beta struggle to comprehend; including why something out there seems determined to destroy it.


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Thursday, 8 February 2024

9 February: Pizza jokes

Today is National Pizza day. 10 pizza jokes:

  1. I asked my waiter if my pizza would be long. No, he said. It will be round.

  2. Want to hear a joke about pizza? Nevermind, it’s too cheesy.

  3. Why does the mushroom always get invited to pizza parties? Because he’s such a fungi.

  4. What do aardvarks like on pizza? Ant-chovies.

  5. I burnt my Hawaiian pizza. Should have used aloha temperature.

  6. How does Good King Wenceslaus like his pizza? Deep pan, crisp and even.

  7. I'm more confused than a circular pizza in a square box, cut into triangles.

  8. The Inland Revenue uses a bewildering array of official forms, and those relating to PAYE were often referred to by their code numbers: P45, P60 and so on. One day, while queueing for a cup of tea at the snack trolley, an employee glanced at the menu for the canteen. “Good grief,” she said, “They’ve even started giving the food code numbers. What on earth is a P122A?” A colleague helpfully pointed out that it was a pizza. Reader’s Digest

  9. How do you fix a broken pizza? With tomato paste.

  10. Do you want me to cut your pizza into 4 or 12 pieces? 4 please, I’m on a diet.

Saturday, 16 December 2023

17 December: Nominitive Determinsim

The term nominative determinism first appeared in New Scientist on this date in  1994. Here are ten of my favourite examples:

  1. A consultant working on the development of a Canadian Ski resort was Mr Snosell.

  2. Dr Stephen Pill became a partner at Clevedon Medical Centre, in Old Street, in 1994 and has also worked at the town's hospital.

  3. Adult education classes in Brentwood: Woodwork taught by Mr Joiner; Art taught by Mr Painter; Seamanship taught by Mr Waterman; Flower Arranging taught by Miss Basket and Belly dancing taught by Miss Button.

  4. An assessment of the feasibility of zapping missiles with "death ray" laser weapons, quoted one Mark Gunzinger.

  5. On the city's expanding waistlines a letter suggesting "Toilet bowls and seats should be strengthened, enlarged" and generally made taller and wider. The correspondent's name? Neil Longbottom.

  6. An Australian newspaper carried an article about a large ranch in South Australia which is overrun with Rabbits. The ranch manager who was quoted complaining that "numbers have reached plague levels", was called Warren Breeding.

  7. Vice President of marketing for Shell Technology Ventures is called Rich Pickens.

  8. The Corporation Secretary of British Shipbuilders was F.E. Noah.

  9. A urologist at the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam is named Dik Kok.

  10. Plymouth Adult Education Centre's "class for those who are interested in singing in a friendly company": apply Mrs N.S. Screech.


Character birthday

Magnetta, aka Poppy Lees. Her power began to manifest at puberty. At first, it took the form of metal objects being attracted to her when she felt strong emotions such as fear, anger or even happiness. She had no control over it and it would even happen whenever she saw a boy she liked. When she was sixteen, her mother took her to Firebolt in the hope that he would know how to stop it from happening. Poppy hoped the Freedom League would insist she stayed with them, as she was tired of her mother's over-protectiveness. While not strictly necessary, Firebolt managed to persuade Poppy's mother to let her move in so she could learn to control her power.

Wednesday, 1 November 2023

2 November: Day of the Dead: Funny Epitaphs

On the Day of the Dead, here are some Epitaphs looking on the bright side of death:

  1. My time was come! My days were spent! I was called and away I went!

  2. Let her R.I.P.

  3. Here I lie and no wonder I’m dead; For the wheel of a wagon ran over my head.

  4. William Makepeace. Gone to join his appendix, tonsils, adenoids, kidney and gall bladder.

  5. Blown upward out of sight; He sought the leak by candlelight.

  6. I told you I was ill.

  7. He’s not in this hole, But only his pod; He shelled out his soul And went up to God.

  8. Sacred to the memory of Major James Brush who was killed by the accidental discharge of a pistol by his orderly, 14th April 1831. Well done, thou good and faithful servant.

  9. Here lies the body of John Mound Who was lost at sea and never found.

  10. Here lies the mule Maggie. In her life she kicked 2 generals, 8 colonels, 7 captains, 16 lieutenants, 541 enlisted men and 1 German mine.

Character birthdays

Crux Australis A member of the Constellations. The Constellations as a group have historically experimented with time travel and inter-dimensional wormholes. Crux Australis is one of a number of humans from Earth who were displaced by such experiments from their time into the present. He is a monk, born in Cornwall, England in 1392.


Electrolyte, aka Gina Jackson. She inherited a talent for electronic


gadgetry from her father, Gadgeteer, and with his guidance, built herself a suit of power armour which gives her the ability to fly, create force fields and superhuman strength. She is a member of the Ultra League.

Sunday, 5 March 2023

6 March: Dentists Day

Dentists Day commemorates the invention of the first 'dental foot engine' in 1790. A day to recognise the work of dentists. 10 dentist jokes:

  1. What did the werewolf eat after he'd had his teeth taken out? The dentist.
  2. When is the best time for a dentist appointment? Tooth hurty.
  3. What do you call a dentist that doesn’t like tea? Denis
  4. Patient: What did you do before you became a dentist? Dentist: I was in the Army. Patient: What did you do in the Army? Dentist: I was a drill sergeant.
  5. Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused to have an anaesthetic injection when he was going for a filling? Apparently, he wanted to transcend dental medication.
  6. What do dentists call their x-rays? Tooth pics.
  7. When did the dentist become a brain surgeon? When the drill slipped.
  8. Why did the king go to the dentist? To get his teeth crowned.
  9. Two books about dentistry: Dental Examination by Hope N. Wide. I Have a Toothache by Phil McCavity.
  10. A pretty young woman was having a tooth pulled. The dentist gave her the usual “This won’t hurt a bit” routine as he bent forward to begin. He immediately drew back in complete alarm. “Miss,” he said in a barely audible whisper, “You have hold of my testicles!” “Yes, I know,” she smiled. “And we aren’t going to hurt each other, are we?”


Character Birthday


March: Member of the Calendar Mob band of villains. Very little is known about him. His power is controlling wind and air currents.


Saturday, 30 October 2021

31 October: Witch Jokes

 Happy Halloween! Here are 10 jokes about Witches:

  1. Why do witches ride on broomsticks? Because vacuum cleaners have to be plugged into the wall.
  2. Life's a witch and then you fly.
  3. What happens to a fast witch on a slow broom? She flies off the handle.
  4. What's the most important subject a witch learns in school? Spelling.
  5. What do you call a witch who lives at the beach? A sand-witch.
  6. What do you call a witch's garage? A broom cupboard.
  7. First witch, sobbing: The doctor said I can't have children. Second witch: Never mind. There are plenty of other things you can eat.
  8. What goes cackle, cackle, bonk? A witch laughing her head off.
  9. What do you get if you cross a witch with an iceberg? A cold spell.
  10. Why couldn't the witch sing? She had a frog in her throat.


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Sunday, 25 October 2020

31 October: 10 Ghost Jokes

No getting away from it. Halloween is going to be pretty shite this year with parties and trick or treating outlawed. So here are 10 jokes about ghosts to cheer us up:

  1. What haunts Football changing rooms? The Team Spirit
  2. What do you call Twin ghosts who keep pressing the doorbell? Dead Ringers
  3. What do you call the ghost who haunts TV chat shows? The Phantom of the Oprah
  4. Why don’t skeletons go to dances? They haven’t any body to go with.
  5. What do you call a well balanced ghost? A spirit level
  6. What happens if you don’t pay the exorcist? You get re-possessed.
  7. Why are ghosts bad at lying? Because you can see right through them
  8. Why did the ghost go into the bar? For the boos
  9. Why do ghosts like to ride in Lifts? It raises their spirits
  10. What happens when a ghost gets lost in the Fog? He is mist.

Killing Me Softly

Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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Tuesday, 20 October 2020

21 October: Lightbulb Jokes

On this date in 1879 A whole breed of jokes was born... Thomas A. Edison successfully demonstrated the first durable and commercially practical electric light bulb at his laboratory in New Jersey. It lasted 40 hours before burning out. 10 Light bulb jokes.

  1. How many Sootys does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but Harry Corbett probably had a hand in it.
  2. How many psychiatrists does it take to change a lightbulb? Only one, but the lightbulb must want to change.
  3. How many kleptomaniacs does it take to.… Hey! Where’s the lightbulb?
  4. Why does it take 3 women with PMT to change a lightbulb? It just does, all right?
  5. How many Spaniards does it take to change a lightbulb? Juan.
  6. ONE. How many psychics does it take to change a light bulb?
  7. How many magicians does it take to change a light bulb? Depends on what you want to change it into.
  8. How many Freudians does it take to change a light bulb? Sex.
  9. How many Mystery-genre writers does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to screw it almost all the way in and the other to give it a surprising twist at the end.
  10. How many surrealists does it take to change a lightbulb? A fish.

Killing Me Softly

Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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Thursday, 23 July 2020

24 July: Tell an Old Joke Day

On Tell an Old Joke Day, 10 corny old jokes:

  1. When Is A Door Not A Door? When it’s ajar.
  2. Who Is The Greatest Chicken-Killer In Shakespeare? Macbeth, because he did murder most fowl.
  3. My wife's gone to the West Indies. Jamaica? No she went of her own accord.
  4. "My Dog's nose has fallen off." "How does he smell?" "Terrible."
  5. What did Big Ben say to the Leaning Tower of Pisa? I've got the time if you've got the inclination!
  6. What goes 99 bonk, 99 bonk? A centipede with a wooden leg.
  7. What lies at the bottom of the sea and shakes? A nervous wreck.
  8. Doctor, Doctor, I feel like a pair of curtains! Oh, pull yourself together!
  9. Waiter, there's a fly in my soup. Don't shout so loud, sir, everybody will want one.
  10. A lady decided to take a Milk bath. She phoned the dairy and asked for a delivery of their best milk. "Pasteurized?" "No, up to my neck will be fine."

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Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

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Wednesday, 6 May 2020

6 May: No Diet Day

Today is No Diet Day. Here are 10 one liners about dieting.

  1. You can't lose weight by talking about it. You have to keep your mouth shut.
  2. Just been invited to join the Slimming World website, and it asked me to accept cookies. I think it's a test.
  3. How about polo mints for dieters, then? They have less fattening centres.
  4. A fast has no real nutritional value.
  5. Square meals make round people.
  6. Tubby or not tubby - fat is the question.
  7. Dieting is a way of starving to death so you can live longer. Bob Phillips
  8. Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow you diet.
  9. Diets are for those who are thick and tired of it.
  10. A good way to lose weight is to eat naked in front of a mirror. The restaurant will throw you out before you can eat too much. Frank Verano


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Sebastian Garrett is an assassin. It wasn’t his first choice of vocation, but nonetheless, he’s good at it, and can be relied upon to get the job done. He’s on top of his game.

Until he is contracted to kill Princess Helena of Galorvia. She is not just any princess. Sebastian doesn’t bargain on his intended victim being a super-heroine who gives as good as she gets. Only his own genetic variant power saves him from becoming the victim, instead of Helena. 

Fate has another surprise in store. Sebastian was not expecting to fall in love with her.

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Monday, 24 February 2020

25 February: Yes Minister Quotes

40 years ago in 1980, the sitcom Yes, Minister was first broadcast. To celerate here are 10 quotes from the show: 

  1. It used to be said there were two kinds of chairs to go with two kinds of Minister: one sort folds up instantly; the other sort goes round and round in circles.
  2. Well, "under consideration" means "we've lost the file"; "under active consideration" means "we're trying to find it".
  3. Hacker: Humphrey, do you see it as part of your job to help ministers make fools of themselves? Sir Humphrey: Well, I never met one that needed any help.
  4. Hacker: Why is it that ministers can't ever go anywhere without their briefs? Bernard: It's in case they get caught with their trousers down.
  5. I gather he was as drunk as a lord. So, after a discreet interval, they'll probably make him one.
  6. Sir Humphrey: How are things at the Campaign for the Freedom of Information, by the way? Sir Arnold: Sorry, I can't talk about that.
  7. Sir Arnold: So, will our next Prime Minister be our eminent Chancellor or our distinguished Foreign Secretary? Sir Humphrey: That's what I wanted to ask you, which do you think it should be? Sir Arnold: Hmmm. Difficult, like asking which lunatic should run the asylum.
  8. It would be different if the Government were a team, but in fact they're a loose confederation of warring tribes.
  9. Underpaid? Backbench MPs, Darling? Being an MP is a vast subsidised ego trip. It's a job for which you need no qualifications, no compulsory hours of work, no performance standards. A warm room and subsidised meals for a bunch of self-opinionated windbags and busybodies who suddenly find people taking them seriously because they got letters "MP" after their names.
  10. Man: In such an awful country, they cut people's hands off and women get stoned when they commit adultery. Sir Humphrey: Unlike Britain, where they commit adultery when they get stoned.


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Another collection of short stories, even more murder and mayhem with carol singers, an orchestra out for revenge, a sinister magic stone and a haunted mansion.

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A Tale of Two Sisters
During a battle with supervillains, a horrific accident leaves the Warner family with no option but to believe their youngest daughter, Jessica, is dead. It doesn't occur to them that the bad guys could, or would, save her.

Jessica wakes up with no memory of who she is or how she came to be on a space station with two bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic eye. She is told her family abandoned her and is sent back to Earth with a mission - to kill them. While Jessica wants to kill her family, along with the twin boys who once rejected her, she knows what the Alliance of Supervillains are asking her to do is a suicide mission. She decides to get her revenge in her own way.

As Jessica puts the first part of her revenge plan in motion, she finds herself with an agonising decision to make. Before she can decide, the Alliance come for her, determined to make her do their bidding. This time, it's the Alliance who leave her, crippled and at the mercy of the Warner family, who have no idea who the Alliance's Black Rose really is.

Jessica finds herself having to re-think her decisions in light of what she now learns about her family, the Alliance, the twins, and herself. It would appear the Alliance have left her with an unwanted and permanent reminder of her time with them. Or have they?

Jessica's older sister, Jill, knows her destiny is to be a doctor and specialise in bionics and genetic variant medicine. She is also hopelessly in love with Christopher, Crown Prince of Galorvia. Can their romance survive the lies Christopher told her when they were both at school, an unplanned pregnancy and Sophie, the wannabe princess who comes between them?

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Thursday, 9 January 2020

10 January: Letters

On this date in 1840 Sir Rowland Hill introduced the Penny Post to Britain. 112,000 letters were posted in London alone on the first day. Here are 10 quips and quotes on the subject of letters:
  1. Letters were sent to 665 men. Each envelope was marked "Important" in large letters, so that those men who could not read might ask to have the letters read to them. American Education Digest
  2. People do read the directions on envelopes. Written beneath bold directions "PHOTOS DO NOT BEND" was a hasty script: "Oh yes they do" written across a deep crease in the envelope.
  3. PS If you do not receive this, of course it must have been miscarried; therefore I beg you to write and let me know. Sir Boyle Roche
  4. Dear Subscriber, If you bought our course, How to Fly in Six Easy Lessons, we apologise for any inconvenience caused by our failure to include the last chapter, How To Land Your Plane Safely.
  5. Dear Customer 104068, Your name is very important to us...
  6. I live so far out of town, the mailman mails me my letters. Henry Youngman
  7. There was a letter on my doormat this morning with the words “do not bend” on it. I thought, how on earth am I going to pick it up?
  8. Post office clerk to lady posting a parcel containing a Bible: "Anything breakable in it?" "Only the ten commandments."
  9. There is nothing like sealing a letter to inspire a fresh thought. Anon
  10. You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her. Ada Leverson


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During a battle with supervillains, a horrific accident leaves the Warner family with no option but to believe their youngest daughter, Jessica, is dead. It doesn't occur to them that the bad guys could, or would, save her.

Jessica wakes up with no memory of who she is or how she came to be on a space station with two bionic legs, a bionic arm and a bionic eye. She is told her family abandoned her and is sent back to Earth with a mission - to kill them. While Jessica wants to kill her family, along with the twin boys who once rejected her, she knows what the Alliance of Supervillains are asking her to do is a suicide mission. She decides to get her revenge in her own way.

As Jessica puts the first part of her revenge plan in motion, she finds herself with an agonising decision to make. Before she can decide, the Alliance come for her, determined to make her do their bidding. This time, it's the Alliance who leave her, crippled and at the mercy of the Warner family, who have no idea who the Alliance's Black Rose really is.

Jessica finds herself having to re-think her decisions in light of what she now learns about her family, the Alliance, the twins, and herself. It would appear the Alliance have left her with an unwanted and permanent reminder of her time with them. Or have they?

Jessica's older sister, Jill, knows her destiny is to be a doctor and specialise in bionics and genetic variant medicine. She is also hopelessly in love with Christopher, Crown Prince of Galorvia. Can their romance survive the lies Christopher told her when they were both at school, an unplanned pregnancy and Sophie, the wannabe princess who comes between them?

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