When her mother was caught by the queen’s soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman’s axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. In this thrilling and epic YA fantasy debut, the only hope for a city trapped in the eye of a cursed storm lies with the daughter of failed revolutionaries and a prince terrified of his throne. And when she meets a commoner with the mysterious power to see right into her heart, she finds that the future she really wants is one that she never thought to imagine. Capturing his heart is a dream come true.īut Hollis soon realizes that falling in love with a king and being crowned queen may not be the happily ever after she thought it would be. After all, she’s grown up at Keresken Castle, vying for the king’s attention alongside other daughters of the nobility. When King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, Hollis is shocked-and thrilled. Kiera Cass is back with a glittering royal romance sure to captivate her legion of loyal readers and lovers of courtly intrigue alike.Ī would-be queen. You’re sure to find your cup of tea here. ✨Īnd you don’t have to be a fan of just historical romance to enjoy royal romance stories! This list of royal romances cover a wide range of subgenres, from dark to modern to high fantasy to science fiction and everything in between. And whether the protagonist is either vehemently against their country (or planet) or reluctantly prideful of it, that passion just adds an extra oomph to a story.

The stakes of a forbidden romance are much higher when a person’s entire family is trying to dictate who they marry. There’s just something different about a love story that could change the entire course of a country (or planet?)’s history. Whether you grew up as a The Princess Diaries stan–the movies or the books (shout out to everyone else who was raised on Meg Cabot)–or, like most people with taste, you recently got swept up in the epic love stories of Bridgerton and haven’t been able to satiate your craving for royal romances since, we’re here to help.

Tangled Hearts by Catherine Vale