Most of my life is spent in service to my Kingdom and my people, despite how the tabloids try to portray me as a hard and cruel ruler.
Then I’m forced to host the Annual Gathering of Eligible Royals and socializing with Princesses to find my future wife becomes my newest duty. I want nothing to do with any of them or the contractual marriages that bind Countries to one another.
Until the moment I first see Princess Alina of Lantis.
The endearingly awkward princess has spent all her life locked away in her palace so that her mother can use the secret of her beauty to her advantage and arrange a marriage to King Corbin. If I was anyone else, Alina would be bound to him by the treaty between our realms.
But as the King of Oshal, he’s only a minor detail for me. A blip in the road I’ll take to make her mine.
And nobody will stand in my way.