Meg Cabot is bringing a close to the adventures of Princess Mia with this tenth and final volume in the Princess Diaries series. She has jumped the tale forward a bit to just before Mia's graduation from high school. As usual, she is confronted with no shortage of troubles.

Ironically, they all center around the idea of lying and how doing so just tends to complicate matters. For example, she is afraid to tell anyone that she has gotten into every college that she applied to, including the Ivy Leagues. Mostly it is because she doesn't want to hurt her friends' feelings because most of them didn't get into their first choices. She also doesn't think she was admitted because of her own talent, but because she is the daughter of someone who leads a small European principality.

Her senior project is also a problem. She has told everyone that she wrote a history of olive oil production in her home country, but she really created a racy romance novel that she is secretly hoping will get published under a pseudonym. Ransom My Heart can be tasted with excerpts that are sprinkled throughout the work, but interested readers can also read the whole book, which has also been published. Mia wants to make sure the book is published because of its quality rather than the ensured sales her name and title will bring about.

On top of that she can't help but worry about the super-party her Grandmère is planning for her 18th birthday, her finals, and the fact that Michael, the love of her life, is just returning from Japan after having gone there to work on a surgical arm that will likely transform the way medicine is practiced.

Mia's voice is as humorous as usual as she ties up all the loose ends of her high school experiences. Fans of the earlier books will find this to be up to the usual par of humor and teen troubles. The series definitely goes out on a high note.