For Ages
14 to 99

A Queen's Game is a part of the A Queen's Duet collection.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The author of the American Royals series invites you to visit 19th-century Europe amid the glamour and intrigue of the Victorian era. In this historical romance inspired by true events, three princesses struggle to find love—and end up vying for the hearts of two future kings.

A WOMAN'S WORLD BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

In the last glittering decade of European empires, courts, and kings, three young women are on a collision course with…

An Excerpt fromA Queen's Game

Chapter One

May

May of Teck hated weddings.

It hadn’t always been this way: she used to stare in girlish awe at the white-­gowned brides, dreaming of when it might be her turn. And May had seen plenty of brides in her day. Say what you would about Queen Victoria, she’d certainly been prolific in the childbearing department; the family tree of the British royals was vast and tangled, and some family member or other was always getting married. Today it was May’s cousin Princess Louise.

May had long ago stopped enjoying these occasions. Now every wedding she attended felt like a reproach, a reminder of her own dwindling possibilities. For six years she had been out in society: rotating around London’s ballrooms and reception halls, always gowned and perfumed and stupidly hopeful. Yet no one ever took a bite, as if she were some appetizer that had grown stale on the platter.

May saw the future stretching mercilessly before her, a bleak existence filled with charity work and Sunday church and, worse,…

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