This is, I think, the final book in Cole's Reluctant Royals series. This is a super sweet romance between an allegedly playboy "prince" and a sheltered young lady with an intense past. Johan is not exactly a prince. He is, however, the stepson of the king of a fictional European country and the stepbrother to the heir, Lukas. Johan has spent most of his life playing the outrageous playboy, in the hope of distracting the media from focusing on his brother, a nice gesture to say the least. Nya is related to the royal family of a fictional African country. Her mother died giving birth to her. Her father used her mother's death to emotionally abuse Nya and he even poisoned his daughter to keep her submissive. Johan and Nya are thrown together at a royal wedding and decide to forge a fake engagement afterwards, for a number of reasons. These characters are so lovely, as is their romance. There's a little palace intrigue going on here, as well as navigating familial relationships. My only disappointment was that several plot threads seem to lead nowhere, though I hope that one involving two secondary characters might mean this isn't the last book in the series:-)
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