Royal Romance Series to Binge: The Complete Princes of Avce Reading Guide
If you have been hunting for the perfect royal romance series to binge — one with actual stakes, fake marriages that feel dangerously real, and heroes who would burn a kingdom down for the right woman — I have to tell you, you just found your next obsession. I am USA Today Bestselling Author Victoria Pinder, and I have spent the better part of a decade writing romance that centers on love stories with weight: displaced royals, criminal dynasties, billionaires who built empires from secrets, and men who would rewrite history for the women who unmade them. Today I am giving you the full reading guide for the Princes of Avce series — all twelve books — plus every other series in my catalog that deserves a spot on your binge list, ranked by trope so you can find your perfect match instantly.
Pour something warm. We are going to be here a while.
Why the Princes of Avce Is the Royal Romance Series to Binge Right Now
The Princes of Avce series is set in the fictional kingdom of Avce — and I want to be upfront about why I chose to build an entirely fictional kingdom rather than borrow from a real monarchy. When you create your own royal world, the rules bend for the story. The stakes are yours to set. The throne can mean exactly what love demands it to mean. Avce is a place where billionaire royals operate in a world of forced proximity, contract marriages, and the slow-burn collapse of every carefully constructed wall two people build between themselves.
Twelve books. Every single one follows a different royal or someone pulled into the royal orbit — and every single one ends with a complete happily ever after. No cliffhangers that strand you. No love triangles. One hero. One heroine. A full emotional arc that pays off every page of tension you invested.
The tropes readers come back to in Avce again and again:
- Fake marriages — where the contract terms are clear and the feelings are absolutely not
- Forced proximity — palaces are surprisingly small when you are trying to avoid someone
- Billionaire royals — men with both power and vulnerability, which is the combination that ruins everything
- Second chances — because first chances in royal circles are rarely allowed to go the way they should
One of my favorite setups in the series involves Rossie and Stefano — Rossie is abandoned at the altar in the most humiliating possible public way, flees to Paris to rebuild herself, and ends up in a contract marriage with an Italian marchese who is connected to the Avce royal world. The book is called Forbidden Marquis. Honestly, writing Rossie was one of those experiences where a character just takes over your hands. She was not supposed to be funny. She absolutely is funny. She is also fiercer than she knows, and Stefano does not know what hit him.
The Princes of Avce Reading Guide
The Princes of Avce series currently has twelve published books. You can read them as standalones — each couple gets their full story — but reading in order gives you the richest experience of the Avce world as it builds and evolves. Characters from earlier books appear in later ones, and there is a quiet continuity of found family that deepens the emotional resonance the further in you go.
Start here if you love: Royal romance, fake relationships that tip into real ones, heroes who are powerful in the world and completely undone by one specific woman.
Where to find the full series: My Amazon Author Page has every book in the series listed. You can also browse the full catalog at victoriapinder.com.
What Makes Avce Different from Other Royal Romance Series
I get this question in reader messages a lot, and I love it because it gives me a chance to be honest about what I was trying to do. A lot of royal romance lives in a fantasy-adjacent space where the royals are essentially fairy-tale figures — distant, formal, defined entirely by their titles. The Princes of Avce are billionaires first. The royal identity is layered on top of a modern man who knows how money moves, how power is maintained, and exactly how fragile both can be when someone gets close enough to matter.
That tension — between the public role and the private want — is what drives every single book in the series. The fake marriage trope works so well in Avce because both parties understand the performance required of them. What neither one accounts for is that performing intimacy long enough starts to create it.
If You Love Royal Romance, You Will Also Love These Series
Irresistibly Series — Displaced Royals Romance with Real Danger
I have to tell you — the Irresistibly series is gaining organic traction every week right now, and I think it is because readers who love royal romance are discovering it and realizing it scratches a completely different itch than Avce does. Where Avce is lush and romantic, the Irresistibly series is urgent and suspenseful.
The Bentleys are the rightful heirs to the throne of Hoskell. Their father the King was assassinated. The Kirno conspiracy froze their assets and stole everything. Seven brothers — displaced, hunted, fighting back through counter-espionage and the kind of cold strategic patience that only men who have lost everything can summon — are the heart of this series.
And Eva and Jake are at the center of it all.
Eva was hired to spy on Jake Bentley. She ends up in a fake marriage with him for cover. And somewhere between the Safe Rooms and the counter-intelligence and the life she was performing, she fell for the actual man underneath all of it. Eva came into this world to destroy the Bentleys. She ended up being the person who saved them.
The reading order for the Irresistibly series is: Irresistibly Lost (prequel), then Found, Charming, Tough, Played, Rugged, Strong, Dashing. Irresistibly Tough is currently available free — grab it here: Free Irresistibly Tough.
Could you have kept Eva’s secret? I genuinely do not know if I could. She is braver than me.
Modern Scottish Lairds — Royal-Adjacent Romance with Ancient Castles
For readers who love the prestige and history of royal romance but want a rawer, more elemental version of it — rugged rather than polished — the Modern Scottish Lairds series delivers something the palace-set royal romance rarely can: a man who is the product of centuries of land and loyalty, standing in the middle of a snowstorm, completely at a loss for what to do with a woman who will not stop challenging every assumption he has ever made.
Snowbound forced proximity in an ancient Scottish castle is one of those setups that writes itself — except it does not, because the characters have to be real enough that the forced closeness means something. The lairds in this series are not performing power. They are the last of a line. That is a very different kind of gravity.
The House of Morgan: When Dynasty Romance Is the Only Royal Romance That Will Do
I want to spend real time here, because the House of Morgan series is the series that readers who love sprawling family sagas with the weight of a crown find their way to — even though technically no one in the Morgan family is actual royalty. What Mitch Morgan built felt like a kingdom. The fact that he built it through darkness and deception, across multiple continents, with four branches of children by four different women — most of them never knowing the others existed — makes the Morgan saga one of the most complex dynasty stories in contemporary romance.
Mitch died before page one of Book One. He left behind Isabelle in Miami — mother of Peter and John. Fiona in France — the woman who knew exactly who Mitch was and chose him anyway. Maria in Italy, who came from Medici nobility — and whom Mitch killed. Patricia in Pittsburgh — a working girl he visited when business brought him through.
He let everyone believe his daughters were dead. As punishment. To women he claimed to love.
Every single one of the twenty published House of Morgan books is one of his children deciding who they want to become.
Peter Morgan — raised to inherit the empire, the power, and the methods — tracked down every branch. The French Morgans. The Italian Morgans. The Pittsburgh Morgans. He brought them all together as a family because he refused to be his father. That act of finding them is the heroic spine of the entire series. Twenty books, and that choice Peter made is still what holds everything together.
John joined the FBI. The ultimate rejection of the Morgan legacy.
And Belle — the wife everyone liked, the former marine with the scar on her face, the woman readers cheered for because she seemed like the steady presence wronged by a glamorous ex — turned out to be the revelation that reframed the entire series. She stole Jennifer’s eggs. Had a baby via surrogacy using them. Faked her own death. Kept manipulating the Morgan family for years. When it came out, it did not feel like a twist. It felt like grief. Because Belle was not a cartoon villain. She was a woman who wanted desperately to be loved and made devastating choices trying to secure it. That is what makes her unforgettable.
Where the House of Morgan Is Right Now — And Why Jennifer Gonzales Is the Real Story
Belle is exposed. Jennifer Gonzales is living at Peter’s house. Her sons are there. She fought twenty books to get to this room — two egg thefts, a cousin she pressured into surrogacy, years of pretense and performance — and now she is standing in it and does not know how to be their mother yet.
Peter is in the house too. They are not together.
I have to be clear about something, because I see readers reduce Jennifer to ‘the beautiful ex who loves Peter’ and it genuinely breaks my heart a little. Jennifer Gonzales is the most complex character I have ever written. Her mother sold her when she was young. Her eggs were stolen — twice. She was reduced to her face by nearly every person who was supposed to protect her. She built a Hollywood career in spite of Peter’s family trying to hold her back. She came back to steal her own eggs, exposed Belle as a liar and manipulator, and now she is in the room she earned.
Her core fear is that she is nothing without her looks. Her real arc — the one that spans all twenty books — is a woman learning to trust herself. The romance with Peter is the reward at the end of that journey. She gets there only when she knows her own worth. That is the story. Not ‘will they end up together.’ That was never the question.
Jennifer is the reason readers buy all twenty books.
You can start the House of Morgan series here: House of Morgan on Amazon.
The Steel Series — For Readers Who Love Power Dynamics and Secret Babies
Ten books. Secret babies with pro athletes. Fake marriages with ruthless power players. The tagline I wrote for this series — A Steel love is forged to last — is the truest thing I have ever written in a tagline, because these are not romances where love is easy or inevitable. These are love stories that get built under pressure, the way actual steel is made. The heat is what creates the strength.
If you love royal romance for the power imbalance and the high-stakes setting, the Steel series delivers those same dynamics in a world of professional sports and corporate power. Different arena, same fundamental tension: a man with everything to lose, a woman with every reason not to trust him, and a secret that changes the entire equation.
Virgin Cove — When You Need a Coastal Reset Between Dynasties
After twenty Morgan books or twelve Avce royals, sometimes you need a smaller world. Virgin Cove is a contemporary coastal small town with second chances, fake dating, and the very specific cruelty of living in a town that remembers everything you have ever done. These are romances on a human scale — no empires, no thrones, no criminal legacies — just two people who have history and a coastline and the question of whether this time they can get it right.
I love writing Virgin Cove books between the big sagas. They remind me why I write romance in the first place. Not for the dynasty. For the two people inside it who are just trying to find their way back to each other.
The Tempting Series — Romantic Suspense with Ex-Marine Heroes
Five books. Five powerful men. One deadly threat running underneath all of them. The Tempting series — centered on the Hawke family — is romantic suspense with genuine stakes: Olivia and Conner (future Queen of Montina and her King), Scarlett and James Clancy, ex-marines protecting heiresses with fake engagements that stop being fake the moment danger arrives.
For readers who love royal romance for the element of danger and protection, the Tempting series delivers that in a contemporary suspense frame. The romance is emotional and real. The threat is also real. And the men who step between the women they love and everything coming for them are not doing it out of duty — they are doing it because somewhere between the fake engagement and the safe house, the feelings became impossible to deny.
Hidden Alphas — Action Adventure Romance for the Reader Who Wants Everything
This series won Kindle Scout, and I will be honest — it is the series I am most proud of in terms of sheer scope. Hidden Alphas is action adventure romance. Michael’s story — Dante Delligatti and Sophie Mira, a Maine island, justice against the man who stole his identity and killed his family — is the anchor. But the series branches: Gabriel and Erica in a haunted Scottish castle in Maine (snowbound — yes, again, because apparently I have strong feelings about snowstorms and emotional honesty). Raphael and Kimberly surviving a plane crash on a medieval island castle. Rocco and Mica — a falsely imprisoned Marine and a billionaire hotel CEO. And Dane and Emily Mira in Paris, chasing the Irish Crown Jewels through Harvard academic intrigue.
If the royal romance subgenre appeals to you because of the history and the high-stakes adventure, Hidden Alphas is the series that takes those elements furthest. These are not men with titles — but they carry the same weight of honor and sacrifice that the best royal heroes do.
How I Decide What to Write Next (A Personal Note)
People ask me constantly how I have written over 100 novels. Honestly? I ask myself which character I cannot stop thinking about. When Rossie showed up in my head — abandoned at the altar, already planning her escape to Paris — I did not outline her story. I just started writing to find out what she would do. That is how almost every book I have ever written has started: with a character whose question will not let me sleep.
The Princes of Avce series started with a very simple question: what does a man who has the whole world think he wants — until the one thing he cannot have by royal decree walks into his life and changes everything? I have answered that question twelve times now in twelve different ways. I do not think I am done with Avce yet.
And the House of Morgan — twenty books in — is still asking me questions I have not answered. Jennifer Gonzales is in that house. Her children are in that house. Peter Morgan is in that house. The story knows what it wants to do. I am just following it.
Your Complete Binge Reading Guide — Quick Reference
- Best royal romance series to binge: Princes of Avce (12 books, fictional kingdom, fake marriages, forced proximity)
- Best for romantic suspense with royal elements: Irresistibly Series (7 books + prequel, displaced royals, counter-espionage) — grab a free book here
- Best dynasty saga: House of Morgan (20 books, Miami billionaire criminal legacy, 25 planned)
- Best for rugged historical-adjacent romance: Modern Scottish Lairds (ancient castles, snowbound forced proximity)
- Best for power dynamics and secret babies: Steel Series (10 books)
- Best for coastal small-town second chance: Virgin Cove
- Best for action adventure with romance: Hidden Alphas (Kindle Scout winner)
- Best for romantic suspense: Tempting Series (5 books, Hawke family, ex-marines)
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Let’s Talk — I Read Every Single Message
If you are new to my books and feeling overwhelmed by where to start — I genuinely mean this — just reach out. I am at victoriapinder.com and I love helping readers find their perfect series based on the tropes and emotional beats they love most. Tell me your favorite royal romance read, your favorite trope, the last book that made you cry, and I will point you exactly where to go.
And if you are already a Morgan reader — if you have been with Jennifer since Book One, if you were as devastated by Belle’s reveal as I was writing it, if you are sitting with the same question I am sitting with about what comes next for Peter and Jennifer — I want to hear from you. These characters belong to you as much as they belong to me.
That is the honest truth about why I write. Not for the dynasties. Not for the thrones. For the readers who stay up too late because they cannot leave a character alone until they find out what she chooses.
Welcome to the Morgan world. Welcome to Avce. Welcome to Hoskell and the Bentleys and the Scottish highlands and the Maine coast and all of it.
I am so glad you are here.
— Victoria
USA Today Bestselling Author Victoria Pinder writes emotional romance across royal, billionaire, and suspense subgenres. Browse the full catalog at victoriapinder.com or find every series on her Amazon Author Page.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books are in the Princes of Avce series?
The Princes of Avce series by Victoria Pinder contains twelve books. Each book follows a different royal or someone pulled into the royal orbit, and every single one ends with a complete happily ever after. There are no cliffhangers and no love triangles — each story delivers a full emotional arc with one hero and one heroine.
What tropes does the Princes of Avce series use?
The Princes of Avce series features fake marriages with contract terms where feelings spiral out of control, forced proximity in royal palace settings, billionaire royals with both power and vulnerability, and second chance romances. The fictional kingdom of Avce gives author Victoria Pinder freedom to set her own stakes and rules around these tropes.
Should I read the Princes of Avce series or a series based on a real monarchy?
Victoria Pinder deliberately chose a fictional kingdom over a real monarchy for the Princes of Avce series so the rules could bend entirely for the story. In a fictional royal world, the throne can mean whatever love demands, and stakes can be set without the constraints of real-world history — making the emotional payoff of each romance more complete and satisfying.
