Trapped By His Love: The Duke's Unexpected Bride

Age: 📚 13+ | 3 Volumes (Ongoing) | Paperback | Creator: Kotoko (Author), Nimo Kakunimoto (Artist)

Trapped By His Love: The Duke's Unexpected Bride is a swoony Cinderella-inspired fantasy romance from author Kotoko and artist Nimo Kakunimoto that proves desperation can lead to the most unexpected—and wonderful—places. Published under TOKYOPOP's LoveLove imprint, this 13+ series delivers courtly intrigue, devoted love interests, and a heroine who accidentally proposed her way to happiness.

Alice Coleman has nothing. Once part of a noble family, she now lives in poverty, her prospects bleak. So when she learns that her engagement to her childhood bully has been arranged, she does the only thing she can think of: she blurts out a proposal to someone else entirely.

That someone is Arthur Grindelbard—wealthy, high-ranking son of a duke, and completely out of her league.

To her shock, he accepts.

What follows is a whirlwind of gifts, attention, and a devotion so intense it almost feels too good to be true. Arthur dotes on Alice like she's the most precious thing in the world, and beneath his charming exterior lies a secret: he's loved her for far longer than she knows.

But happiness in high society never comes easy. As their unexpected engagement draws them into the glittering—and dangerous—world of the nobility, old rivals resurface and secrets threaten to tear them apart. Arthur's former fiancée returns. Political intrigue closes in. And Alice must decide whether she'll fight for the future she never dreamed she could have.

Trapped By His Love is the fairy tale for readers who want their prince charming to have loved them all along.

Perfect for readers who love: Cinderella retellings, shoujo fantasy romance, devoted male leads, contract/arranged engagement tropes, noble society intrigue, heroines who find strength through love.