His Majesty's Proposal

For Penelope Zecalion, a shattered engagement followed by one drink too many spirals into an unforgettable mistake—one that upends her entire life the moment she opens her eyes and finds herself sharing a bed with the emperor himself. Still raw from the collapse of her first betrothal, Penelope refuses to let her guard down again. Sharp-tongued, hot-tempered, and perpetually prickly, she meets the emperor's every attempt at closeness with stubborn defiance, determined to keep her heart locked safely away. Yet the man now entangled in her scandalous predicament proves impossible to keep at arm's length, and the walls she has so carefully built around herself begin to crack. Will the emperor manage to thaw Penelope's icy defenses and win her over, or will the wounds of her painful past keep love forever out of reach?