Description
In a palace carved of marble and secrets, nineteen-year-old Princess Eudora is used to being seen, not heard. Born the only child to a king more focused on power than paternity, she's spent her life navigating expectations, silks, and silence. But when a foreign king arrives under the cover of thunderclouds and diplomacy, everything begins to shift. King Adrian is not what she expects. Young, composed, and dangerously unreadable, he arrives with his advisor and a promise her parents refuse to name. As palace corridors whisper of alliances and arranged futures, Eudora finds herself caught between duty and defiance-torn between the roles forced upon her and the desires stirring beneath the surface. Surrounded by gilded lies, veiled glances, and the weight of a crown she never asked to bear, Eudora must decide who she wants to be-and what she's willing to risk-for truth, for power, and perhaps... for love. A slow-burn romance layered with courtly intrigue, sharp wit, and aching vulnerability, this is a story about a girl who refuses to go quietly-and a king who just might listen.
The corset and the Crown
