She Raised His Heir
She raised his son alone. He never knew. Now he's come back, and someone wants them both dead. Amara Cole built a small, precise life in London: two jobs, a six-year-old....
She raised his son alone. He never knew. Now he's come back, and someone wants them both dead. Amara Cole built a small, precise life in London: two jobs, a six-year-old son, and a rule about not looking backward. The man she spent three months loving seven years ago disappeared without a word. She stopped asking why. She moved on. Then the black cars arrive. Three of them. Government plates. And the man who steps out of the third one looks up at her window like he already knows exactly where she lives. His name is not Adrián Castillo. It never was. His full name is Adrián Alejandro de Castilla, Crown Prince of Spain. The three months in Lisbon were a cover operation. Falling in love with her was not part of the brief. Leaving without a word was not his choice. His uncle, Duke Rodrigo, made sure of that. And now Rodrigo knows about Lucas. What follows is a race across two countries, from a London flat to a Spanish palace, from a road attack in the dark to a succession crisis that could destroy the crown. Amara is not a woman who runs. But her son's life is on the table. And the man she stopped trusting seven years ago is the only protection she has. The Crown Came Knocking is a contemporary royal romance about a woman who never stopped being formidable, a man who never stopped paying for one mistake, and the six-year-old boy who changes everything, for both of them.