Clara Rowe has always been fascinated by dynasties — the weight they place on the people born into them, the costs they extract, and the private lives that persist underneath the public obligation. She writes romantic fiction about what happens when duty and desire stop being separable questions. When she isn't writing, she can usually be found with a cup of mango green tea and a book she has been meaning to finish for three weeks.
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Julian Aldric is very good at not wanting. Imogen Hartley is very good at leaving. When a six-day diplomatic secondment to Sorvaine becomes something neither of them planned for, the obstacles are real — a political marriage, a regency that cannot afford scandal, a father's illness that must stay quiet. The crown has always known what it requires of him. Whether he has ever known what he requires for himself is another question entirely.
Lucien Aldric has spent thirty years performing the role of the spare. Isabelle Vauclaire was arranged to marry his brother, then arranged to marry him instead. The European press calls it the consolation match. Neither of them has accounted for what happens when two people who are very good at not being seen finally have nowhere else to look.