About this book
For thirty years, Lucien Aldric has performed the role of the spare with complete professionalism. Present, appropriate, carrying nothing the room was required to notice — and very aware of the cost of that. He is Crown Prince now, and the arranged marriage that follows is politically necessary and he intends to treat it as such.
Isabelle Vauclaire was arranged to marry his brother. Then circumstances changed, and she was arranged to marry him instead — transferred from one Aldric to the next with the same absence of ceremony that has characterized every decision made about her life. She does not resent Lucien. She does not resent the outcome. What she carries is quieter than resentment and considerably more stubborn, and she has spent their entire acquaintance — their whole lives, the same rooms, the same world — waiting for him to look at her long enough to wonder what it is.
The European press calls it the consolation match. Lucien has spent thirty years being looked past. Isabelle knows the feeling. What neither of them has accounted for is what happens when two people who are very good at not being seen finally have nowhere else to look.
The consolation match. Until it isn't.
A royal romance. Book 2 in the Sorvaine Series.
COMING SOON.