Anna of Kyiv: Queen of Two Worlds (An Evening Romance Book 1)

She was born to rule a kingdom of golden domes. Fate crowned her queen of a land that couldn't even read her name. Kyiv, 1043. Anna, daughter of Yaroslav the Wise, has grown up surrounded by libraries, wealth, and the certainty that duty comes before desire. When a French king asks for her hand to seal a peace between nations, she leaves behind everything she knows — and the one man sworn to protect her the entire way. Radomir is only her guard. He has no right to love a princess bound for another man's crown. But across a continent of ambush, wilderness, and firelit nights under foreign stars, silence becomes its own kind of confession. In Paris, Anna transforms a grieving, illiterate court into a kingdom that finally respects her mind — signing decrees as Anna Regina, the first queen of France who could write her own name. But when a bold, dangerous count offers her the one thing her crown never could, Anna must choose between the safety of duty and the terrifying freedom of her own heart — even if it costs her the Church's blessing, and the loyalty of the one man who never stopped waiting. Inspired by the true story of Anna of Kyiv, with fictional characters and details woven into the historical record. A story of two crowns, two men, and one woman who refused to let history write her without a voice of her own.