Royal Romance — Crowns, Kingdoms, and Commoners Who Refuse to Curtsey
Royal romance does something other tropes can't: it puts the heroine in a room where the rules were written without her, and asks her to either bow or rewrite them. The pull of royal romance isn't the tiara. It's the moment a woman who never wanted a crown looks at the man who wears one and realizes she's the only person in the kingdom who tells him no.
That's the royal romance Victoria Pinder writes.
The Princes of Avce is the flagship — a fictional European kingdom whose royal family hides a billion-dollar empire behind diplomatic titles. American women, secret heirs, fake marriages-of-convenience that turn into real coronations. Five princes, five very different paths to a throne. (Read more in marriage of convenience →)
The Scottish Lairds trades thrones for clan estates — dukes, earls, the modern men who inherited castles and the family debts that came with them. Highland winters, Aston Martins on snowy roads, Christmas weddings in eleventh-century stone.
For readers who want royalty by adjacency rather than crown, the House of Morgan has political dynasties that think and operate like royal families — Norouzi cousins running half a continent's worth of capital with all the formality of a court and none of the constitution.
Pinder's royals are pressure-tested. The person who marries a prince marries the country, the protocol, and a thousand-year history that doesn't bend. The romance has to be bigger than all of that — and in her books, it always is.
Browse all royal romance titles below.
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More tropes by Victoria Pinder: Marriage of Convenience → · Billionaire Romance → · Enemies to Lovers → · Second Chance →
Forbidden Crown
Prince Antonio Aussa doesn’t need a soulmate; he needs a signature and a woman who can play the part of a perfect royal bride for exactly one year. I’m drowning in student debt and desperate enough to take a job that starts with a contract and ends with a crown...
Irresistibly Lost
The Billionaire’s Second Chance Proposal A runaway groom. The woman he left behind. A marriage deal that changes everything. Aaden Bentley never wanted the throne. But when a deadly attack wipes out his royal family and a billion-dollar inheritance comes with one...
Forbidden Prince
He’s the royal family’s most notorious playboy, a man who treats the throne like a suggestion and the women of Avce like a game. I’m the best friend of his brother’s new bride, and I’m supposed to be enjoying a breezy summer vacation, not falling into the bed of the...
