The Young Royals Books 1-4 Boxset Book Reviews

The Young Royals Books 1-4 Boxset by Emma Lea Book Summary

Books 1-4 of The Young Royals Series including Lord Darkly
Book 1 - A Royal Engagement
The Spare is now the Heir
Alyssabeth never expected that one day she would be queen.  She was the second child of the king and queen of Merveille and female.  Two strikes against her as far as the patriarchal society of Merveille was concerned.  But that all changed the day her father and brother were killed in a hunting accident.
Not much had changed in the small country in her four year absence, but there were two noticeable differences.  Her brother’s two best friends, Will Darkly and Jordan Wicks, had grown up into two very intriguing men.  Jordan practically swept her off her feet from the moment she stepped off the plane, but Will was more reserved and his darkly intense interest in her gave her tingles.
Alyssa wasn’t sure she was cut out to be Queen, but she knew she wanted to do her father and brother proud. She was willing to give it her best shot, even if it meant going toe to toe with Parliament.  And then there was the small matter of her needing to be married in order to fulfil her birthright and take her place as the Head of State.
Book 1.5 - Lord Darkly
There are always two sides to the story…
A Royal Engagement was told exclusively from Princess Alyssa’s point of view…now see Will’s side of the story.
The last few years have been hell for Will Darkly, Duke of Camphrey, Lord of Pemberton.  First his mother died, then his father, leaving the estate destitute and we won’t even go into how he and his sister were betrayed by someone they trusted.  Now, just when he has finally landed on his feet, his best friend, the Crown Prince Jacob St. Benét, is killed in a hunting accident.
Jacob’s death brings Will face to face with his childhood crush, the prince’s sister, Alyssa, now the crown princess and heir apparent and she’s even more beautiful than he remembered.  She’s also involved with the one man who could cause Will to commit murder.
Grieving for his friend, trying to keep his business moving forward, and avoiding the attraction he feels for his best friend’s sister leaves him short tempered and irritable and something has to give before he loses his mind.
Book 2 - A Royal Entanglement
On the day of the new Queen’s coronation, a man from Lady Alexandra’s past turns up unannounced in Merveille.  Lord Frederic intercepts him and discovers that Alex had left this man at the altar six months ago and now he was here to claim her.
The last thing Freddie wants is to get entangled with a woman.  He liked to keep his options open, but now that he has returned to Merveille for good, his mother is trying her damnedest to get him married off and producing the next Bingham heir.  When Alex asks for his help, he is only too eager to help her and maybe get his mother off his back in the process.
Alex hasn’t told anyone the real reason she left everything she had worked so hard for in the States to return to Merveille and take up the position of Queen Alyssa’s personal assistant.  But now the main reason for her flight from the US as turned up on the palace’s doorstep and she is backed into a corner.  The only person that she can think of to help her is Freddie, but she worries that getting too close to him might just do more harm than good.
Book 3 - A Royal Entrapment
The Queen is getting married and Lady Priscilla is required to work alongside the Lord Chancellor, Dominique, to ensure that the whole affair goes off without a hitch and that they don’t, unwittingly, start World War Three.  The only problem is that Priscilla finds Dominique insufferable and Dom isn’t all that enamoured with Priscilla either.
When Priscilla’s sister, Bianca, falls for Dominique’s brother, Louis, the two young lovers hatch a plot to ensure that they can spend time together, but it means that Dom has to pretend to be interested in Priscilla and get her to date him.
The more time they spend together, the more Dom and Priscilla start to like each other, except that now Dom is caught in a difficult spot…should he tell Priscilla that he only asked her out because his brother wanted to date her sister, or should he keep quiet and hope she doesn’t find out?
Book 4 - A Royal Expectation
Lady Jeanette Bower had always known what her life was going to look like.  It had been drummed into her since she was a little girl.  She would marry a titled gentleman and make him a splendid wife who was above reproach.  It was what her mother had always wanted for her and Lady Jeanette always did what her mother wanted her to do.  She was a good girl.  The only problem was, Lady Jeanette didn’t expect a six foot four Australian with sparkling tawny coloured eyes and a mischievous grin to walk into her life and show that there was perhaps another path for her to take.

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