She Wrote the Princess’s Letters, But Stole the Prince’s Heart
Elara Wynn is a royal secretary in the Kingdom of Lyne. Her job is to write love letters for Princess Isolde to send to Prince Adrian Hawthorne. All twelve letters are signed with Isolde’s name, but every bit of warmth, humor, and honesty in them comes from Elara. Adrian barely knows the princess he is supposed to marry, but he slowly falls in love with the woman behind the letters—the one person who understands how lonely he feels and tells him he does not always have to be perfect. Just as the two kingdoms are about to finalize the marriage alliance, royal adviser Lucien Voss secretly alters the twelfth letter and arranges a staged attack at an abandoned chapel. His plan is to frighten Adrian into going through with the political marriage as quickly as possible. Elara realizes that the letter has been opened and resealed. She rushes to the chapel, saves Adrian, and is finally forced to admit the truth: she is the real author of all twelve letters. Adrian has finally found the woman he fell in love with—but choosing her means breaking his engagement, defying the nobility, and possibly giving up his right to the throne. At first, Isolde refuses to lose both the marriage and her future as queen. But little by little, she realizes that she and Elara are not so different. They are both women being used by the royal court. When Voss forges military orders and tries to use a war at the border to force the marriage forward, Elara must rely on the one thing she does best—her words—to stop two kingdoms from going to war. But this time, she will not write under the princess’s name. This time, Elara Wynn will sign her own name and write her own place in history.
