The Midland Throne

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>To honor her sixteenth birthday Crown Princess Estelle Bourbon invites sixteen of the world's best and brightest to her home for the opportunity to win her affection over the course of thirty-two weeks. She isn't thrilled about her prospective suitors or really the possibility of becoming queen but as her family's sole heir she faces her destiny with a grim acceptance.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Julian Hanover is the Crown Prince of Estelle's neighbor to the south. His intelligence is matched only by his ambition and a marriage with the Midland Princess would make the most sense from a political standpoint. One problem he doesn't like Estelle and she doesn't care for him either.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>Carter Braganza is heir to a kingdom north of Estelle's. His friendly laid-back attitude and charisma can put a room at ease in an instant and better still he and Estelle actually get along. But his heart isn't in the contest-instead a certain Lowland Prince has caught his eye.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(30 25 21 1)>As the competition progresses and tensions rise to the point of all-out violence each contestant must decide where their loyalties lie and just how far they are willing to go to earn Estelle's hand in marriage.</span></p>