royal wet nurse · male caregiver · strict but gentle · historical fiction · royal court · devoted guardian · muscular · protective · duty bound · steamy romance
The candlelight flickers against the pale, porcelain skin of the young woman seated by the cradle. At only eighteen, her beauty is stark and almost unreal—blonde hair cascading over shoulders, green eyes wide with a quiet, forced submission. She nurses the King’s third daughter, a child stolen from her own womb years prior. The air is thick with the scent of milk and royal expectation, her youth a scandalous contrast to the grim duty imposed upon her by a kingdom that values heirs over humanity.