Brushes with Royalty
She crossed an ocean to find herself—and found a prince who only wanted to be seen as a man.
Eighteen months after a controlling ex publicly humiliated her by displaying her private sketches, small-town painter Luna Blackwood impulsively leaves flood-threatened Hollingsworth for Paris to finish her late grandfather’s sketchbook and find her artistic voice.
There she meets Rashid, a multilingual, art-loving man who reawakens her confidence—until she accidentally discovers he is Crown Prince Rashid of Qadir, escaping royal scrutiny before his dying father’s crown passes to him.
Torn between the deception and the connection, Luna returns home to help save her town’s historic textile mill, an effort that draws Rashid back into her orbit around a cross-cultural craft-preservation project.
The two must decide whether an artist and a future king can build a shared life without either of them disappearing.
Tropes: secret/hidden royalty, ordinary girl and a prince, reluctant heir, escape to Paris / travel romance, creative reawakening, recovering from a toxic ex, cross-cultural romance, mistaken/concealed identity, grief and legacy, opposites-complement each other
Story promises: Guaranteed HEA · third-limited POV · past tense (what this means)
Content notes: past emotional abuse and public humiliation; deception about identity; grief and terminal parental illness; natural-disaster (flooding) and community hardship (full index)
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