Royal Romance

About the Royal Romance series

Royal Romance (published under the working title "Not Really Royal") is Meghan Quinn's two-book royal-fling romcom duet, opening with Royally Not Ready and closing with Royally in Trouble. The premise leans into a familiar fish-out-of-water royal-romance hook, an ordinary American woman finds herself unexpectedly entangled with royalty, filtered through Quinn's usual fast, joke-heavy voice rather than the more formal register the genre often takes.

Royally Not Ready introduces the central couple and the culture-clash comedy of an unpolished heroine thrown into a world of protocol and public scrutiny, while Royally in Trouble raises the stakes as the relationship becomes public and the couple has to navigate the fallout together. As with several of Quinn's other short series, the two books were conceived as a linked pair rather than an open-ended series, giving the story a clear beginning, middle, and end across its two installments.

Readers who enjoy Quinn's banter-forward style paired with a higher-stakes, more spectacle-driven setup than her small-town or sports romances will find this an easy, complete pair to binge, with the fantasy of royal life played mostly for laughs rather than drama.

How to read this series

Read in publication order: Royally Not Ready, then Royally in Trouble. The two books follow the same central couple across a continuing storyline, so they build on each other rather than functioning as fully independent standalones — start with Royally Not Ready to get the fish-out-of-water setup before moving to Royally in Trouble, which follows the relationship into the public eye. No prior familiarity with Meghan Quinn's other series is needed, and no further books or spin-offs are currently part of this pair, so the two volumes are the complete story.