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★已授權紐澳、美、英、荷、德、義，6國語文
★作者泰勒．詹金斯．里德(Taylor Jenkins Reid)和影集《王冠》粉絲不容錯過

They would always choose the Crown over their family. It was the pact they made for the honor of wearing it…

The whispers were scandalous. The truth was worse…

It’s New Year’s Day in Australia and the life Lexi Villiers has carefully built is working out nicely: she’s in the second year of her medical residency, she lives on a beautiful farm with her two best friends Finn and Jack, and she’s about to finally become more-than-friendly with Jack—when a helicopter abruptly lands.

Our steps her grandmother’s right-hand-man, with the tragic news that her father and older brother have been killed in a skiing accident, and in addition to the shock and grief, Lexi must now accept the reality that she is suddenly next in line for the throne—a role she has publicly disavowed.

Returning to London as the heir apparent Princess Alexandrina, Lexi is greeted by a skeptical public not ready to forgive her defection, a grieving sister-in-law harboring an explosive secret, and a scheming uncle determined to claim the throne himself.

Her recent life—and Jack—grow ever more distant as she feels the tug of tradition, of love for her grandmother, and decide, Lexi must choose her own destiny: will it be determined by an accident of birth—or by love?

 

Rebecca Armitage is an author and journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, who likes to write about royals. She has written stories about the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the coronation of King Charles III, the exile of Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan, and the abdication of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe. As digital editor for the ABC’s International news team, she has covered several US elections and travelled to Israel to cover the war in Gaza. She lives in Hobart, Tasmania, with her husband and a poorly behaved German Shorthaired Pointer named Chino. The Heir Apparent is her first novel.

 

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