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THE SORVAINE SERIES

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Five royal siblings. One small kingdom on the sea. A love story for each of them.

The principality of Sorvaine is a sliver of coastline between France and Italy — small enough to cross in an afternoon, old enough to have outlasted every empire that ever wanted it. For four hundred years it has belonged to the House of Aldric, and now it belongs to five siblings who each have to work out what the crown will ask of them, and what they're willing to want anyway.

Contemporary royal romance, set in a kingdom that feels real enough to visit. Each book follows one sibling to a happily ever after; the family carries through all five.

What the Crown Requires — Julian. A regent, an arranged marriage he never questioned, and the woman who arrives during Grand Prix week and makes him question everything.

What the Crown Costs — Lucien. The scholar prince handed his brother's intended bride, a rift between brothers, and two careful people discovering what they're willing to want.

What the Crown Desires — Nicolas. The brother who traded the palace for the Formula 1 paddock, and the woman who names the thing he's been living without.

What the Crown Lost — Felix. The one nobody ever worried about, the loss the family has been bracing for, and a chance arriving years too late.

What the Crown Protects — Céline. The youngest Aldric, the man assigned to keep her safe, and a line neither of them can afford to cross.

Reading order

What the Crown Requires

Book 1

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.

What the Crown Costs

Book 2

Clara Rowe

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.

What the Crown Desires

Book 3

Clara Rowe

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.

What the Crown Lost

Book 4

Clara Rowe

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.

What the Crown Protects

Book 5

Clara Rowe

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.


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