All titles by Clara Rowe.
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.
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.
The youngest son, the one nobody ever worried about — the charming one, the easy one, the surface. When the family faces the loss it has been bracing for, the prince who never had to try becomes the one who has to show up. A woman he's known his whole life, a chance arriving years too late, and the heaviest, most tender book in the series.
The princess who grew up watching, on the other side of everything the family has lived through — and the man assigned to keep her safe, who was never supposed to be anything more than that. A forbidden line neither of them can afford to cross, and every reason in the world not to.