After the deaths of her closest loved ones, Princess Briar Ashbourne has become little more than a shadow wandering the halls of the palace she once loved. Trapped beneath the crushing expectations of grief, duty, and a father determined to marry her off for political gain, Briar feels her life no longer belongs to her. When a desperate moment nearly ends in tragedy, the king makes a humiliating decision: if Briar refuses to smile for her court, then a jester will force her to. Enter Justice Vexley: vulgar, reckless, sharp-tongued, and entirely too charming for his own good. He is everything a princess should despise: irreverent, scandalous, and impossible to control. Briar despises him immediately. Justice, meanwhile, seems determined to mock every rule the palace was built upon, including the ones Briar has spent her whole life obeying. But beneath the insults, laughter, and constant clashes, Justice begins pulling Briar back toward the world she stopped caring about. He teaches her how to laugh again, how to rebel, and how to live for herself instead of the crown on her head. And as the two grow closer, their rivalry slowly transforms into something far more intimate and undeniably dangerous. Because a princess promised to another man cannot fall in love with the court jester. Especially not one hiding secrets of his own. Set within the glittering walls of a decadent palace filled with political schemes, grief, and forbidden longing, Mock Me is a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers romance about finding yourself after loss, and risking everything for the one person who sees you beyond the crown.

A legendary assassin infiltrates the royal court disguised as a jester. His mission? Gain the king's trust, map the castle, lock the gates from the inside... and burn the kingdom down with the king still inside. Fire took everything from Kael when he was ten years old. Hidden inside a grain barrel while his kingdom burned to ash around him, he survived long enough to be found by the Ember Veil - Solaria's most feared underground organization. Years later, Kael has become something far more dangerous than the starving boy he once was: an assassin known only through whispers, bloodstained rumours, and the title *The Black Swordsman*. His newest mission is simple - infiltrate the royal palace disguised as the king's newest jester, earn the court's trust, and burn the kingdom from the inside out. Princess Elyra Vaelmont has spent her entire life trapped behind golden walls. Buried beneath royal expectations, political duties, and the constant weight of her family's crown, all she wants is one thing freedom. But when a mysterious hooded stranger appears during one of her secret escapes into the underground markets of Solaria, her carefully controlled world begins to unravel. Especially after the palace's newest jester arrives and somehow feels hauntingly familiar. As war brews between kingdoms and dangerous secrets begin surfacing beneath the palace halls, Elyra finds herself drawn toward the one person she should fear most. But the deeper Kael falls into the role of the fool, the harder it becomes to remember where the performance ends. Because behind the bells, the tricks, and the laughter lies a man sent to destroy everything Elyra has ever known, including her. QUOTES/SNEAK PEAKS ' <3 ⟡ "i crave you so deeply it feels like my existence leans toward you, my heart will forever be engraved by yours." - Kael "I want you so bad this might kill me." - Kael "Arius isn't your name." Elyra point out "You're name is Kael." His hand covered his smile across his face...

She has a crown, a palace, and a life most would envy... but no freedom. He has laughter, freedom, and the comfort he always wanted... but never anyone who truly sees him behind his mask. Together, they begin to fill the voids they've always carried, but their growing bond leads to consequences, impossible choices, and pain neither of them expected. • Kind of a slow burn. • Kind of enemies to lovers. • SFW with a hint of spice. • Dark romance without heavy or explicit themes. (Chapters containing sensitive topics will include a warning at the beginning.)

No one truly knows the king's fool. Not his name. Not his past. Not why he always seems to appear when secrets are near. But when Princess Seraphina's path begins crossing with his, she discovers that beneath the painted smiles and silver bells lies something far more dangerous than madness. A mystery she cannot resist. And a fool she cannot forget.

Has anyone else seen the edit on TikTok with the Princess x Jester? Well, I made a book about it, I don't know if the characters already have names or not but I named the princess Evelyne and I named the jester Rowan. Enjoy!

The intense chemistry between a broken cold princess running an empire alone and a jester playboy, as they take on a revenge mission together.

At court, he is the fool. She is the crown. Their clandestine love is the most magnificent treason of all. Each night, Princess Élodie escapes the suffocating walls of the palace disguised beneath the veil and plain dress of a maid. Beyond the reach of watchful nobles and whispered expectations, she meets a stranger in the moonlit gardens, a man whose laughter feels more honest than anything within the royal court. Laurent knows her only as a veiled servant girl. Élodie knows him only as a man who sees her as something more than a future queen. But the illusion cannot last forever. For Laurent is the court's jester, hidden behind painted smiles and mocking bells, while the woman he has fallen for is the very Princess seated above him at court. Even after the truth is unveiled, neither can abandon the dangerous bond forged between them in secret. As their forbidden relationship deepens, Élodie's loyal servant Sabine is forced to conceal the Princess's nightly disappearances by taking her place within the royal chambers. Yet the deception grows perilous when King Auguste arrives at court and mistakes Sabine for his future bride. Now the palace is tangled in secrets: a king falling for the wrong woman, a servant mistaken for royalty, a princess slipping through shadows, and a fool who dares to love the crown itself. In a kingdom built upon appearances, one wrong step could destroy them all.

"𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙙𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙨𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙝𝙞𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚 𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙡." They fool, they called him. Of course, no one knew his real name, they had never bothered to ask. Or care.