Minerva batted her eyelashes at me and pushed her shoulders back. "Do I look lonely?" she said.
She looked like someone I wanted to push onto her back right then and there. Like someone I wanted to kiss until we were both dizzy. But there were things you didn't say to a princess, not when your station was so far below hers.
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On her first day working as a maid, Eve finds the king dead on his throne. His murder kicks off a cascade of intrigue, and as the plots of the nobility come crashing down around her, Eve is torn between hungry princes, the ever-watching eyes of the royal court, and a mad princess who seems to know far more than she lets on. Complicating everything further is the Imperative, a magical curse through which the Andan nobles have bent the world to their whims. If she is to survive, Eve must learn what it means to find strength in the face of overwhelming power.
The Maid and the Monarch is created by EOK Gifford-Smith, an EGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

The Maid and the Monarch

I think I have always found everyone attractive. Boys, girls, men, women. I tried to look at everyone like their secret admirer might look at them. See their beauty, their adorable quirks. How he might puff out his chest at a compliment or how she curled a hair behind her ear while she focused. In the right light, very few people are actually ugly.


My first kiss was with a boy. He had light brown hair and a smattering of freckles between his eyes. The village kids were gathering apples from the nearest orchard, and he pulled me behind a tree for a quick confession.


Chapter 27: Remembering II