She didn't mean to end up unconscious on a country road in the rain. She especially didn't mean to be carried inside by a stranger, nursed back to health in a North Oxford flat, and find herself — three weeks later — still there, sharing a kitchen with a man she knows only as Marcus, who makes excellent omelets and is hiding something she hasn't quite been able to name.

He wasn't planning to tell her. He didn't get to choose.

Juliana Treymont is a doctoral student, not a romantic. She has a thesis to finish, a mysteriously neglected inheritance to untangle, and absolutely no business falling for a man whose life was decided long before she came into it. Marcus Gratiani has a kingdom to run, a convalescing father, and every reason to keep his distance from a woman who asks inconvenient questions and notices things she probably shouldn't.

They're not each other's plan. They might be each other's person.

But someone has been watching Juliana for a very long time. And when the danger she's been kept in the dark about finally finds her, the only thing standing between her and the truth about her past — and her future — is a crown prince who has already decided he's not letting go.

Sometimes love gets a little messy.

Run-In with a Royal is the first book in the Royals of Marvidinia series by Kellie Baker.

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