Romance involving wealthy, powerful, or high-status love interests.
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.
Prince. Formula 1 Driver. The man the paddock has been watching for eight seasons. Nicolas Aldric falls for Vera Shin immediately and knows it. She is not far behind. What comes after is fast, real, and lived across a full season — and the cost of his world is not theoretical. The only question is whether it is something to be survived or something to be chosen.