LauraJ10
She tried everything to lose. Fate had other plans.
Aria Moon has one rule: never fall in love again.
Years ago, a love letter to her childhood crush turned into the most humiliating moment of her life. She swore she would never let anyone make her feel that vulnerable again.
Then she discovers that the boy she once loved is actually Prince Adrian Han, the youngest of the kingdom's four princes.
And now, an ancient royal law forces Aria to compete for his hand.
Determined to lose, Aria does everything wrong. She dresses terribly, gives disastrous answers, burns food, breaks royal dishes, and openly admits that she would make a terrible princess.
Somehow, she becomes one of the finalists.
And then Adrian chooses her.
Suddenly, the girl who wanted nothing to do with royalty is living inside a palace filled with secrets, jealous rivals, four princes fighting for different futures, and a royal family hiding the truth about a Queen who died years ago.
But when Aria is poisoned, something impossible awakens inside her.
She begins seeing the ghost of a mysterious woman.
A woman who has been appearing in her dreams since childhood.
A woman who knows her name.
As Aria searches for answers, she discovers that her mother's forgotten past is connected to the palace-and that the Queen's death may have been a carefully hidden crime.
Why was Aria chosen?
Why did the poison awaken her?
And what really happened the night the Queen died?
In a kingdom where the crown hides more secrets than it reveals, Aria may discover that she was never meant to become a princess.
She may have been the heir everyone was trying to forget.
A dark fantasy romance filled with royal secrets, school drama, comedy, mystery, magic, jealousy, friendship, and a love that neither of them expected.