The Princess & The Jerk (Fifth Book of "Fire and Ice" Series)

Witchy's Author-Note and Extended Summary

Important information about the story:

Even if it's labelled as 5th book in the series, it can be read independently or alone in the series; or if you read the other books, it can be perfectly enjoyed right after "Loving You is Forbidden", before and/or while reading "Playing by My Rules", or before/while reading "Beyond Those Irresistible Eyes". This is the romantic journey of Viola Taylor and Sergey Lebedev and it will start from some events we encountered at the beginning of "Loving You is Forbidden" for then moving forward.

Actually, I am beginning this book before "Playing by My Rules", for a bit more time to plan everything and get into such complex characters is needed for me. But I believe that soon enough we will also start to read about Adrian and Vincent, let's just be a bit more patient.

You will not necessarily need to read "Fire and Ice" and "Tricks of Love", however it is advisable to read "Loving You is Forbidden", to understand the background of Anatoly. Yet, my advice is to enjoy the full series, forgiving me please the fact that the first two books are not edited and present quite few grammar mistakes, misspelling and errors in contents. On this point, I am currently editing, fixing and somehow improving "Fire and Ice" (adding some parts to offer a deeper insight into the characters and their backgrounds and stories, but NOT changing the story, no worries please) and soon enough I will post the first 10 edited chapters, for then proceeding with the others and so on. The same will be applied to "Tricks of Love", and later on, to "All you need is ME" and "Fallen for an Angel".

Please, do not worry and as usual, trust me: I will not repeat the same exact contents we had in Anatoly's story, of course. However, given how the story sparked and began between Viola and Sergey, it is impossible not to touch some episodes seen in there, intrinsically linked with them, but this time, lived and viewed through two different POVs (our sweet and peculiar Viola, and our abrasive and not quite approachable Sergey). This will also offer us the chance to see aspects and details we missed before for obvious reasons, to see facts from a different angle. After having concentrated on some of those necessary moments, the story will move forward, given new characters are as well presented.

Also, please do not worry about trite and apparent cliché. You know me quite well by now; there might a hint to cliché, for let's be honest, love and falling in love per se are clichés, but there will be a turn and different shade to them. What might look like one will turn out not to be. You will understand what I mean while reading the story. I try my best not to render the books and their contents banal, both for you and for my characters.

This is a romantic, sweet, heart-warming love-story with touches of adorable and bizarre cuteness. Please, refrain from asking a certain type of physical action here, because it would not suit the characters. I think we all came to understand that Viola is an extremely kind girl who definitely would not sit well in a certain type of story. For this reason, the story is not labelled as mature. To each character their own story and telling, this is what I believe.

Yes indeed, this is the first romantic story I write here between a girl and guy, even if it will be followed by the one concerning Anton and Anya from "Fallen for an Angel", story that will have completely different contents and age-rating (it will be a mature book, under many aspects).

The most mature element in this story is the mild swearing offered by our Tolya (who of course will play an important support/co-protagonist role in here) and by Sergey, whose harshness and cutting words we are all already accustomed to.

Thus, this is my WARNING for the story: some occasional swearing and bad words.

Once more, let me remind you some of the characters are Russian and thus, please be aware of the way the names can be changed-shortened: