Bibliophile Princess

虫かぶり姫

Elianna Bernstein, a marquis's daughter, would rather stay home with a book than mingle at court, so she turns down every suitor her family's name attracts. Then Crown Prince Christopher proposes an engagement he tells her is a fake, a way to keep political matches away from him, and offers her free run of the royal archives in return. Elianna takes the deal on those terms alone. Four years on she has read nearly the whole collection, and the arrangement she thought she understood no longer sits where she left it.