Royal Duty

Publisher Marketing: Brianna tip toed out of her room and follow the sound of the argument. At first she didn't know what the argument was about. And it's just like her parents to argue about nonsense, but somehow to her this argument was different. She stopped at the seating room of the hotel and listen to them go at it, and then she realized that the quarrelling was about her. "You think I didn't see the way you looked at her after all of that?" "What I couldn't stand was seeing that bastard with his hands all over her." "Oh why don't you just admit it?" "Admit what?" "That you wish Brianna was your Queen?" "Don't be stupid woman. She's my daughter." "Brianna is not your daughter, and you're in love with her. She will never be yours." Brianna was shocked beyond words. She can't believe what she's hearing. The man she's known all her life is not her father, but a man who's in love with her. This is not what she needed at a time like this. More hidden secrets. "And that does not mean I love her any less than I do my own children!" He yelled, "and besides it was your one too many infidelities that produced her in the first place." "Not before you threw me out of bed for that little whore. So go ahead blame me for everything." "If I haven't stepped in when I did, those hoodlums would've ripped her and you to shreds." "Oh and that makes you a hero, doesn't it?!" Musetta said through gritted teeth. Brianna had heard enough, "So the rumors are true." Both were stunned to see Brianna standing there looking at them with tears in her eyes. "I am the bastard child from Queen Musetta's infidelity." Oh boy.. There is trouble in the kingdom.... Princess Brianna has always been her own person. And was never afraid to be herself. Tired of being wanted only for her titles she decided never to marry, though sought by many suitors. When word of her sister's kidnapping reached her, Brianna learned that the price for her sisters freedom is her hand in marriage. Force to break a vow she's made to herself she found herself being married to the prince of her worst enemy. Maitland. This dark prince broke every wall Brianna had built around herself and took hold of her heart. Prince Ian of Maitland was a fierce man, strong, bold, drop dead georgous, and deared to be defied. No woman, although they have tried, couldn't hold his heart. Until the day he stormed into King Emmanuel's palace and demanded his beautiful daughter, Brianna, to marry him in exchange for her sister's freedom. But in the events to come they are both faced with demons from the past. Secrets will be revealed and betrayal awaits them along the way. Nothing is what it seems. Will Prince Ian's love for his new wife survive what awaits for them down the road. Or will they do whatever it takes to fulfill their ROYAL DUTY.