By Any Other Name {#ONC2021}
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The princess's coming of age ball was really just a thinly veiled search for a husband. As neither an eligible man nor a gossiping mother, Erica was expecting the whole ordeal to be frivolous and boring. She was already under enough pressure with her father to start managing the family estate without adding royal ass-kissing to the list.
So when a boyish stranger from another kingdom steals her attention with an unfortunate fashion sense and peculiar demeanour, she's intrigued. Maybe just enough to follow him on his personal quest for adventure, no matter how far it takes them.
Though not all is as it seems, and sometimes a mask just isn't enough to hide behind.
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