(jaylor au) clandestine meetings in beautiful rooms

- book one of the illicit affair series -

that's the thing about illicit affairs...
it's born from just one single glance...
but it dies, and it dies, and it dies...
a million little times.

Taylor Alison Swift is the daughter of King Scott and Queen Andrea of New York City. Since the moment she was born, her fate has been decided by her mother. She is to marry, not for love, but for duty, because blue blood runs through her veins. Her life might as well be planned out in front of her, no choices are her own.

But she wants to marry for love. Marry for that spark one feels when they are truly in love. She doesn't want to have to marry someone she has just met or someone that she hasn't gotten to choose. She doesn't want to marry for the Crown, for the throne. She just wants to marry for love.

Joseph Matthew Alwyn is a Prince, son of the King and Queen of London. They meet, one night, where neither of them are supposed to be. At a bar in the middle of nowhere, the smell of candles, beer and smoke lingering on their clothes. They meet, and embers collide, creating a bright, burning inferno. But fires that start fast can burn out quickly, and they'll do everything they can to keep that spark alive.

No matter what it takes. No matter if they could both be stripped of their titles, exiled, or worse case... they refuse to think about that.

It's a dangerous game they're playing.