Stableshoes

<p>Why would a prince need a ball to pick a bride? He's in love with the palace stableman of course!</p><p>Prince Darian has met all the requirements necessary to claim his father's throne; at least he thinks he has until his sinister cousin Bertram reveals a law that states Darian must marry by his twenty-fifth birthday or lose the crown.</p><p>With only four weeks to find a bride Darian turns to his beautiful irreverent clever friend Ashley for help before a grand ball is to be thrown in his honor. But there is another who catches the prince's eye: living in perpetual silence is Eric the stronghold stableman whose kindness disrupts Darian's plans to hide his nature.</p><p>Each day that passes is another day closer to Bertram's takeover and he's counting on Darian to fail. While Eric has the prince's heart the stableman also carries a secret mark that could jeopardize Darian's claim to the throne. To protect the nation he loves from a tyrant Prince Darian must choose between true love and living a lie.</p><p>350 pages</p>