WHEN AN UNLIKELY SUITOR.... The Earl of Stokeford is hardly a man of amiable disposition and social graces. He scowls whenever he pleases, becomes rude at any time convenient for him, and worse, has a regrettable tendency to scare ladies out of their wits. Therefore, it is a most astonishing thing indeed when, upon laying eyes on the beautiful Miss Sophie Winscott, he decides to embark on a courtship... Except, of course, the hapless peer knows nothing in the matters of romance...until he receives help from an unlikely quarter. MEETS AN EAGER MATCHMAKER Then enter Miss Winscott's cousin, the vivacious Caroline Davis, who oddly gets along well with the slightly waspish Earl. Determined to help, Caroline endeavours to make a match of the two. But for all her enthusiasm, she can't help but be drawn to the troubled lord... and things start to get a little tangled from there.

‟Tonight shall be the first and last night that we spend together, Gianita, for I do not intend to produce heirs by this marriage. The Prince would still be my heir, even though you're the Empress.‟ ‟Then why keep me, Sire, if I am of no use to you? It's obvious that you do not intend to add any more members to the imperial family besides yourself and the Prince, so why marry me?‟ *** Gianita, a princess from an eastern country is sent to marry the widowed Emperor of Angletonia, a vast and prosperous empire in the western hemisphere. To her dismay, the Emperor prefers the companion of his young son instead of his new bride. There were no traces of his previous marriage, only that the wife died shortly after the Prince was born. With his past clouded with riddles, will she be able to unravel the mystery that is him? ━━━━━━━━ Featured on Wattpad profiles: @Romance, @Fantasy, @WattpadAsianFantasy, @HistoricalFiction, @WattpadHistoricalRomance, @WattpadMulticultural, @generalfiction and @cupid. HIGHEST RANK #55 in #ROMANCE out of 1.84M stories Ranked #1 in : #Emperor, #Empress, #Empire, #King, #HistoricalRomance, #History, #AdultFiction, #MatureContent, #SexScenes Ranked #2 ArrangedMarriage, #4 in DiverseLit Awards : Overall Winner 🏆x1 Romance 🥇x3 // 🥈x2 // 🥉x1 Historical Fiction 🥇x2 // 🥈x2 Reviews : 🎖Paradise Royale by tale_a_grammer 🎖Perfect Review & Worthy Read by bibliophile0305 ━━━━━━━━ 12.26.2019 : Started 07.09.2021 : Completed - ©COVER, BANNERS & ALL VISUAL ASSETS by MeirinaSoe This book is exclusive to WATTPAD. Any copies found on other sites is COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT.

❝𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒕, 𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒕.❞ (the stars incline us, they do not bind us.) ━━━━━━━━━━ 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 Born as twins, yet one of them had everything, and the other had close to none. Abandoned at birth, Elianna struggled to live in the cold desolated palace located in the deepest corners of Thethia's royal grounds, while her sister was crowned a Princess and showered with affections and luxury. Yet, Elianna was happy. She was surrounded by people who sincerely cared for her and having them is more than enough for her. The only question was, how long would this happiness last for her? ━━━━━━━━━━ Golden Awards 2020: Random Category - Honorable Mention ━━━━━━━━━━ 23.12.19: Completed | ✓ 09.12.20: First Edit | ✓