A Royal Holiday (Royals of Valleria #5)

Come visit Valleria this holiday season!

The season for stolen kisses and royal wishes is here. Catch up with the Vallerian royal family as they celebrate the holidays together … and apart.

The day of the Holiday Ball and her engagement party has finally dawned for current commoner and future princess Rebecca, love of Alexander, her fiancé and heir to the throne. However, when a royal scandal breaks just days before the ball and implicates Alex, will they recover in time to navigate through the ball and their first Christmas together?

After years of difficult holidays, English Lady Grace is ready to make some new memories with her prince, Marcello, but can she give him the one thing he wants most?

Charlotte, head baker for the Vallerian Royal Palace, has been working at a frantic pace leading up to the holidays all while recovering from a gunshot wound. When Nate decides to spirit Charlie away, will his surprise rise to the occasion, or fall flat as a bad cake?

Pregnant Princess Arianna has made a home in the small country of Brazenbourg with its prince, Finn, but her first holiday away from Valleria proves to be harder than expected. Can Finn pull off the impossible and grant Arianna her most fervent Christmas wish?

Come visit Valleria this holiday season, where surprises abound, dreams might come true, and a series of events plans to make for a very interesting New Year.

This novella features stories of four royal couples navigating their first holiday season together, a royal family that loves one another (even while they annoy each other), and a look behind fictional palace walls.

This is a standalone book in the series with no cliffhanger, and features sexy scenes and swearing. See below for full tropes and content warnings.

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Meet the Royals of Valleria, a country as old as the fall of the Roman Empire. The reigning king and patriarch rules with his beloved queen. Nine children, now grown, ranging from the eldest twins to the youngest son, watch over the country they love and care for. Bound by honor, duty, and each other, follow their lives as they fall in love, face tragedies, and triumph against the evils facing them.

MAIN TROPES

• royal romance
• holiday romance
• baking/cooking romance
• royal engagement
• royal wedding
• family saga

Content/Trigger Warnings

CW: discussion of past physical abuse by a previous partner, mention of previous physical harm including gunshot wounds.

All of Marianne Knightly's books feature sexy scenes and swearing