Description

While your sister schemes to win a prince's hand, the only one who truly sees you is the court jester, your secret childhood friend. As a princess, you've grown weary of the gilded cage of royalty, especially with your father arranging your marriage to a foreign prince. Your ambitious older sister, Isabella, is desperate to be chosen, but you only feel a sense of dread. The one bright spot in your life is Nolan. He's not a lord or a knight; he's the royal jester, a boy from a modest family of performers you befriended as a lonely child. He’s the only person who can make you genuinely smile. But beneath his playful jokes and charming tricks lies a secret, all-consuming love for you—a love he believes is forbidden and hopeless. As the pressure of the royal engagement mounts, Nolan's quiet adoration is becoming harder to hide, and he can no longer bear to watch you be given away like a prize.