{"id":2110,"date":"2026-03-19T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2026-03-19T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T21:39:19","slug":"the-crowns-false-bride-bound-by-a-lie-broken-by-the-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/?p=2110","title":{"rendered":"The Crowns False Bride &#8211; Bound by a Lie, Broken by the Throne"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>One act of mercy. One impossible lie. One ultimate betrayal.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3ecbc08cf282012a8db180ae6218671d\">Rana lives a life of quiet shadows in the kingdom of Paishalom\u2014until she finds a wounded man dying in the dust. By opening her door and offering him shelter, she commits a forbidden act of mercy. She has no idea that the man she is nursing back to life is the most dangerous man in the realm: Prince Aren, a royal forged in cold ambition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-911465e952af8c4cfe51a029fb24476c\">To settle his debt, Aren whiskes Rana away to the golden opulence of the royal estate. But the palace is a viper\u2019s nest of intrigue, and Aren is surrounded by enemies who want him dead before he can reach the throne. To survive, he needs a shield. He needs a distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He needs a wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He offers Rana a devil\u2019s bargain: Play the role of his princess for a few months, and her future will be secured in gold. It was supposed to be a charade\u2014a marriage of paper and ink. But as the lines between their pretense and reality begin to blur, Rana finds herself falling for the man behind the cold, royal mask.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yet, in the brutal game of power, love is a liability. Aren is a prince who has risked everything for the crown, and when his enemies close in, he must make a heart-shattering choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He promised her safety. He gave her his ring. But to win his kingdom, he is about to hand the woman he loves to the very people who want her dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One act of mercy. One impossible lie. One ultimate betrayal. Rana lives a life of quiet shadows in the kingdom of Paishalom\u2014until she finds a wounded man dying in the dust. By opening her door and offering him shelter, she commits a forbidden act of mercy. She has no idea that the man she is &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,15,131],"tags":[132,165,98],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blurbs","category-cover","category-english-books","tag-english-books","tag-novels","tag-romance-writers-club","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.junia-swan.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}