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Heart of a Royal
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Heart of a Royal
Book 1 of the Daughters of Peverell series
306 pages · First published 2019
Mackenna Sparrow has lived in the Peverell palace since infancy as companion to Princess Alina, but Alina’s engagement means Mackenna’s borrowed royal life is ending. Returning to commoner status would be difficult enough without her feelings for Prince Thoraben, the childhood friend she knows she can never appropriately marry. Questions about Mackenna’s past and the truths she has accepted about her place in the royal family begin to complicate the future everyone has planned for her. The first Daughters of Peverell novel combines clean royal romance with friendship, identity, and a heroine learning that belonging cannot be measured solely by title or birth.
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Family separation and class/status upheaval; political/royal pressure; secrets about identity and family; emotional distress; clean romantic longing and kissing-level affection.
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