A Little Less Than Royal | ONC 2021
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Last published Mon, Feb 8, 2021
The word 'princess' was too pretty. The word 'queen' was too elegant. Now the words, 'I'm your new favorite mystery' was something that would go down in royal history.
Following the death of her parents, a young girl from America is suddenly forced to move into her grandmother's house, correction- castle, located on the other side of the globe. Estrella Minerva knows anything and everything about fantasy books, to constellations, to ballet, EXCEPT for being a princess. Let's ignore the fact that she only has a month to get married to a noble prince and become queen of Roselaine.
An arranged marriage is bad enough- but the noble prince turns out more decent than she expected.
Then that's when a jar of notes from a secret lover appear...
...and suddenly Estrella is having a crisis with her love life.
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[ warnings: mentions of deaths of parents ]
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