Bibliophile Princess

虫かぶり姫

Elianna Bernstein, a noble who would rather read than mingle, accepts an engagement to Crown Prince Christophe of Sauslind on plainly transactional terms: the match shields him from court factions, and in return she gains free run of the royal library. Four years into the arrangement she finds him in close conversation with Irene, a viscount's daughter, and begins steeling herself to dissolve the engagement she never expected to feel anything about. Her bookish reserve sits at the center of the court intrigue around her.