Guarding the Princess

I hired a new bodyguard. I should have guarded my heart instead.

Charlotte:
The way out of my gilded cage was clear; the reward, freedom.
Fall in love and get married before my twenty-first birthday and I can give up the throne I don’t want.
Unfortunately, the boyfriend I propose to turns me down just days before my birthday and my mother, the Queen, summons me back to my country.
New plan: fake a boyfriend.

Ryker:
First rule of bodyguarding: don’t get involved personally with clients.
I’m only supposed to get her back to Regora safely and on time.
But then she cries on my shoulder when I catch her running away and she shares her family secret.
Now I want to protect her heart.
The only problem is princesses don’t fall for bodyguards. Not in real life.