How to Leave the Palace

Briarbridge Island Book One

On her fiftieth birthday, Princess Alexandra does the one thing the Crown can’t forgive: she disappears.

By morning, the palace is spinning. The tabloids are hunting. And the world is asking the same question: Why would a woman with everything walk away?

Alexandra isn’t chasing drama—she’s chasing silence. A windswept island off the New England coast. A weathered house that still smells like her grandfather’s summers. And the quiet thrill of making her own cup of tea for the first time in decades.

But peace doesn’t last long.

Because there’s a man in her yard with a chainsaw… and he doesn’t bow.

Oliver West is blunt, capable, and maddeningly unimpressed by titles—and the more Alexandra tries to hide, the more he sees the woman underneath.

And back in London, hungry journalist Willow Smyth-Jones smells blood in the water—and she’s determined to drag the truth into daylight.

A runaway princess. A ruthless spotlight. A second act that could cost her everything… or finally give her a life that’s hers.

Book 1 of an 8-book saga of scandal, friendship, and second-chance love starts here.