by Geneva Lee
First published 2019
Alexander is young, he is king, and he is barely holding things together. The royal family is already drawing fire for a string of controversial decisions, and Alexander has spent months working to contain the damage. He keeps his wife close and his father's past locked away, because one exposure could bring the whole institution down. He is good at managing threats he can see coming. This one he did not see. A new scandal breaks through the surface, and it has nothing to do with the secrets Alexander has been guarding. It is something else entirely, something the family never prepared for, because they were too busy burying everything else. Alexander has to protect a wife, silence a past, and now face a crisis that rewrites what he thought he knew about the people closest to him. Geneva Lee, the New York Times bestselling author of Command Me, delivers another story set inside the world's most scrutinized family, where power is inherited but trust has to be earned, and where the cost of one secret is always another.
Genres: fiction, drama, romance, contemporary, adult, adult-fiction
Vibes: dark, dramatic, emotionally-intense, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: crisis-and-conflict, family-secrets, power-couple, protective-partner
Setting: Royal Palace
Content warnings: death