This Prince Is Not Charming

The Bachelor meets cozy romantasy as a dressmaker is forced into a competition to marry the high prince—who also happens to be her best friend.

All Cerriwen Morgane wants is to live a quiet life caring for her anxious father. That’s hard when they run a dress shop right next to a sentient castle that always seems to be under attack. Still, she tries to shield her father from all the stress.

Until the castle invokes a series of trials for the next queen—and chooses Ceri as one of the contestants. Now Ceri is forced to compete against six other women to become Cillian Wolfgang’s wife. She has no desire to marry the playboy prince, not when they’ve been best friends since childhood. Then there’s the fact that her father’s anxiety will be at an all-time high.

Despite her attempts to lose, the castle keeps sending Ceri to the next round. Worse, the more romantic dates and intimate challenges she’s forced on with Cillian, the attraction they’ve refused to acknowledge becomes harder to ignore. When the lines of their friendship are blurred, neither are prepared for the consequences. Especially when the castle’s true motivations for the competition are revealed, putting their feelings, their friendship, their futures, at risk.

This Prince Is Not Charming is a standalone cozy, spicy romantasy with magical trials, a marriage competition, friends-to-lovers romance, and a matchmaking castle.