By Royal Design

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What if Europe's monarchs never truly vanished-only waited for their chance to return?</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dr. Peter Schneider is a Boston cardiologist a man of science who saves lives not a leader who rules them. But when he arrives in Berlin he is swept into a conspiracy centuries in the making. In hidden councils the heirs of Europe's royal dynasties-the Habsburgs the Hohenzollerns the Saxons and more-have chosen him to become the face of their boldest ambition: a United States of Europe ruled not by democracy but by crowns.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Peter is unprepared for the weight of destiny. But someone else is ready.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Adam Bergman Mossad operative and grandson of a Jewish poet who defied the Nazis has lived his life in the shadows. For Adam history is not theory-it is blood memory and warning. Where others see Peter as Europe's savior Adam sees him as a pawn in a ruthless design that could strangle freedom forever.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As assassins strike loyalties fracture and secrets surface from the Vatican to Vienna Peter and Adam are hurled into a collision course that will decide whether Europe's future belongs to democracy-or to empire reborn.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By Royal Design</em><span style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> launches the explosive thriller saga that continues in </span><em style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By Papal Decree</em><span style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By Her Majesty's Command</em><span style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> with an all-new volume already in the making.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And at the helm is Norbert E. Reich-a master storyteller whose vision blends the sweep of history with the pulse of today's headlines. With meticulous research razor-sharp suspense and characters who linger long after the final page Reich delivers a series as intelligent as it is irresistible.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(248 250 252 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because history never dies. It waits. And now-it wears a crown.</strong></p><p class=ql-align-center></p>