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How to Catch a Queen

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How to Catch a Queen

By: Alyssa Cole
Narrated by: Karen Chilton
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An arranged marriage leads to unexpected desire, in the first book of Alyssa Cole’s

Runaway Royals series…

When Shanti Mohapi weds the king of Njaza, her dream of becoming a queen finally comes true. But it’s nothing like she imagined. Shanti and her husband may share an immediate and powerful attraction, but her subjects see her as an outsider, and everything she was taught about being the perfect wife goes disastrously wrong.

A king must rule with an iron fist, and newly crowned King Sanyu was born perfectly fitted for the gauntlet, even if he wishes he weren’t. He agrees to take a wife as is required of him, though he doesn’t expect to actually fall in love. Even more vexing? His beguiling new queen seems to have the answers to his country’s problems—except no one will listen to her.

By day, they lead separate lives. By night, she wears the crown, and he bows to her demands in matters of politics and passion. When turmoil erupts in their kingdom and their marriage, Shanti goes on the run, and Sanyu must learn whether he has what it takes both to lead his people and to catch his queen.

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loved this book. It's a slow burn but it's a given with the setting of things in the world where Shanti was married into. I loved how determined and still open she was no matter hpw egotistical, ignorant and dismissive the patriachy she meets head on was. She learns what she can, put herself out there and has great love for the people she's denied and when her and Sanyu finally actually make time for the relationship, it blooms. It's well written because a lot of people wouldn't take on a place like she does with such grace as are the previous queens. Well deserved a read.

Slow burn but well written

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