The Dauphin's Stranger
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Last published Mon, Sep 22, 2025
Anna never expected her weekend trip to the museum to end in gold and whalebone. One moment she's in 2025, the next she's gasping for breath in the body of Marie Antoinette on the day she arrives at Versailles to wed the Dauphin of France.
Suddenly thrust into the most glittering and perilous court in Europe, Anna must learn to play the role of a foreign princess in a world that is both intoxicating and suffocating. Her only anchor is Louis Auguste-awkward, brilliant, and unexpectedly gentle-who is as much a mystery to her as Versailles itself.
As whispers coil through mirrored halls and politics tighten like corset stays, Anna struggles to balance her own modern instincts with the fate of a monarchy teetering on the edge of history. But this time, there will be no Revolution. This time, she has a chance to change everything-if she can survive long enough to love the boy who will become king.
A slow-burn romance, a tangle of silk and time, and a story of what happens when history bends beneath the weight of two unlikely hearts.
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