_RelleLebby_
She arrived in Bangkok to craft someone else's fairy tale, never imagining she would become entangled in the palace's most perilous secret.
Mariah Arledge had built her career on precision. As a junior coordinator for an elite luxury wedding firm, she had been sent to Bangkok to help execute a prestigious royal wedding inside the Sriphotong palace. Her assignment had been simple: manage the details, remain professional, and leave when the celebration ended.
Then she met Crown Prince Kasem Sriphotong.
He had been powerful, guarded, dangerously charismatic, and accustomed to people bending around his position. Mariah had refused to bend. Their first encounters had been anything but pleasant, and their mutual irritation had quickly become something far more difficult to ignore.
But the palace had never been merely beautiful.
Behind its gilded halls and immaculate gardens had existed a world governed by tradition, loyalty, reputation, and secrets. Every relationship had carried consequences. Every smile had a hidden meaning. And some people had spent years protecting their place beside the crown.
Mariah had been an outsider.
Kasem had been trapped at the center.
What had begun as hostility had slowly become an attraction neither of them had intended and neither had known how to control. But loving someone inside a world built on expectations had never been simple.
The palace had remembered every betrayal.
It had protected every secret.
And it had never forgiven anyone who threatened its order.
BENEATH THE LOTUS THRONE had been a dark, slow-burning royal romance filled with forbidden attraction, obsession, betrayal, luxury, danger, and the intoxicating tension between two people who should never have fallen for each other.
©️ _RelleLebby_// R. L.