It's the start of a new school term - and trouble's already brewing for one disaster-prone princess.

On top of Mrs Martinez daring to suggest that Mia's "not ready" for Advanced Creative Writing, Grandmere is being booted out of the Plaza during renovations. Can any other hotel in the world live up to Grandmere's standards? As if! But Mia's problems fade to nothing when she hears the most terrible news of all. Michael has been accepted on a year-long computer science course... in Japan!

Can Mia's perfect prince really love her if he can go away for a year? Or is being halfway around the world just what Michael needs right now?

PRAISE FOR MEG CABOT

"There is a school of thought that says reading should be entertaining, and this is exactly what Meg Cabot produces for us: fun. She is the master of her genre; she is the George Bernard Shaw, if not the George Eliot of [her genre]." Publishers Weekly

"Cabot has . . . an off-the-wall sense of humor that will have readers laughing out loud and a knack for creating fully realized characters that readers will miss when the story ends." Booklist