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Twenty-one-year-old Evelyn "Evie" Vance is just trying to survive. Balances two jobs, scrubbing floors at a high-end London hotel, and dealing with a bank account in the single digits, her life is anything but royal.
Until the night the glass doors of the hotel shatter.
Pulled behind a marble counter by a man in a bespoke suit, Evie discovers her entire life is a lie. Her late mother wasn't a simple seamstress-she was a hidden royal mistress who fled a palace coup. And Evie isn't a commoner; she is the only living child of the dying Prince of Valenica, a wealthy European mountain kingdom. By ancient constitutional law, she is the rightful Crown Princess.
Whisked away to a breathtaking, white-stone palace in the Alps, Evie is dropped directly into a court of vipers.
Her new step-siblings, Prince Julian and Princess victoria, want her gone-by disgrace or by blood-before the upcoming coronation.
Her only line of defense? Commander Alex Cross. He is the fiercely protective, icy-gray-eyed Head of Royal Security who swore an oath to protect the true heir. He is rigid, professional, and entirely off-limits. But as the threats against Evie's life escalate, the forced proximity behind closed palace doors blurs the lines between royal duty and forbidden desire.
In a game where a single etiquette mistake can cost her the throne, and a single mistake of the heart can cost her her life, Evie must learn to play the vipers at their own game.
She just has to stay alive long enough to wear the crown.