Rebecca Winters has won the coveted National Readers' Choice Award and the Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award. Desperate to ensure that his four-year-old daughter Zoe learns to speak, widower Prince Alexius of Hellenica hires children's speech therapist Dottie Richards from New York City. Under Dottie's care, the motherless girl blooms -- as do feelings deep within the reluctant prince's heart.