Cordina's Royal Family

About the Cordina's Royal Family series

Cordina's Royal Family follows the ruling family of the fictional Mediterranean principality of Cordina across two generations of royals balancing crowns with love. Affaire Royale opens with Princess Gabriella, who has lost her memory after a kidnapping attempt, and her growing trust in Reeve MacGee, the American ex-cop hired as her bodyguard while the family works to uncover who orchestrated the plot against her. Command Performance follows her brother, Crown Prince Alexander, and his politically fraught romance with Eve Hamilton, an actress whose profile makes her an unlikely match for a future king. The Playboy Prince turns to the youngest sibling, Prince Bennett, whose reputation as the family's charming troublemaker collides with a woman who refuses to be charmed. Cordina's Crown Jewel, published fifteen years after the original trilogy, completes the family's story with the next generation: Princess Camilla, an archaeologist more comfortable on a dig site than at court, and the security expert assigned to protect her.

The kidnapping plot that opens the series in Affaire Royale gives the family's early books real stakes beyond courtship, while Cordina's Crown Jewel functions as a later-generation coda revisiting the same royal family as adult children take their turn in the spotlight.

How to read this series

Read the original trilogy in publication order — Affaire Royale, Command Performance, The Playboy Prince — as the kidnapping plot against Princess Gabriella and the family's response to it threads through the first book and colors the two that follow. Cordina's Crown Jewel arrived fifteen years later and shifts to the next royal generation, so it can be read as a stand-alone follow-up once you know the family from the original three.