The Crowns Selection

A royal decree shatters Prince Benedict's carefully constructed indifference: he must marry this season, or lose his claim to the throne. Haunted by a past love and a secret curse that threatens to break London, he faces a forced selection of thirteen noble ladies, each vying for his hand and the crown. Among them is Eliza Everly, a baron's daughter with a sharp tongue and a dangerous secret of her own, who arrives at the palace not to win, but to be eliminated. But when a calculated insult from the favored Lady Isabella pushes Eliza to a shocking act of defiance, she finds herself literally falling into the arms of the very man she was meant to avoid. In a court where power is everything and every smile hides a dagger, can Eliza escape a fate she never wanted, or will the prince's reluctant gaze ignite a fire that could consume them both?

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