Royally Unexpected Books in Order
Part ofLilian Monroe Books in OrderSee the Royally Unexpected books in order by Lilian Monroe, with summaries, series background, and clear help on where to start.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
10 books
Bad Prince
by Lilian Monroe
2019
A borrowed dress and the wrong invitation put Elle at the royal ball, and one reckless night changes her future. Now the crown prince wants more, and she's carrying his heir.
Broken Prince
by Lilian Monroe
2020
Prince Luca is already promised elsewhere, which should make attraction easy to resist. It does not, especially when duty, family pressure, and real feeling start pulling in different directions.
Cruel Prince
by Lilian Monroe
2020
Everyone knows the prince is trouble, which makes trusting him a terrible idea. But headlines rarely tell the whole story, and one woman gets close enough to find that out.
Heartless Prince
by Lilian Monroe
2020
One date with a prince is supposed to be simple, just a favor and nothing more. Instead it opens the door to palace drama, growing feelings, and consequences neither saw coming.
Lone Prince
by Lilian Monroe
2020
Snowed in with a brooding prince in a remote castle is the kind of problem that sounds romantic only from a distance. Up close, the chemistry is impossible to ignore.
Wicked Prince
by Lilian Monroe
2020
A secret pregnancy is hard enough. Hiding the father's identity when royalty is involved turns it into a full-blown scandal waiting to happen.
Wrong Prince:
by Lilian Monroe
2020
Leaving should have solved everything, but this heroine ends up tangled in royal trouble anyway. The prince she gets is not the one she expected, which makes the fallout even harder to escape.
Yours for Christmas
by Lilian Monroe
2020
A Christmas ball should be festive, not life-changing. But one unexpected royal connection turns a holiday escape into a very inconvenient romantic disaster.
Ice Queen
by Lilian Monroe
2021
A queen who has locked herself behind duty and grief has no room for romance. Then one dangerous connection starts cracking the image everyone thinks they know.
Rogue Prince
by Lilian Monroe
2021
The kingdom's resident bad boy is catnip for gossip and a nightmare for anyone trying to stay out of the spotlight. Falling for him is a terrible plan, and possibly inevitable.
Series background & context
The Royally Unexpected books are modern royal romances with a playful streak and a lot of accidental-pregnancy chaos. If you like castles, tabloids, princes with terrible reputations, and women who did not plan on ending up anywhere near a throne, this is Monroe leaning all the way in.
The series moves through linked fictional kingdoms, including Farcliff, Argyle, and Nord, with each book focusing on a different royal couple. Some heroes are crown princes. Some are spares, bad boys, or men the public thinks they already understand. The heroines are usually very much not prepared for palace life, which is part of the fun.
The fairy-tale setup comes with real mess.
Monroe uses familiar royal-romance pleasures, glittering events, strict expectations, duty, gossip, bodyguards, and old-money pressure, but she keeps the stories contemporary and fast-moving. Bad Prince starts with a Cinderella-style encounter that turns into a pregnancy bombshell. Later books widen the world with arranged matches, one-night disasters, snowy castle confinement, queens with walls up, and princes who are either more broken or more decent than they first appear.
What ties the series together is the mix of fantasy and vulnerability. The palaces and titles are escapist, but the emotional problems are personal, fear of scandal, fear of intimacy, grief, class difference, public scrutiny, and the panic of realizing one reckless night or one fake arrangement has changed everything. Monroe is especially good at letting the glamour and the claustrophobia sit side by side.
There is also a strong found-family feel once you get a few books in. Royals, spouses, siblings, and palace insiders keep reappearing, so reading in order helps the kingdoms feel bigger and more lived in. The collection volumes in this database group the books by kingdom, which gives a neat shape to the larger world.
If you want romance that feels glossy and a little ridiculous in the best way, Royally Unexpected is a very easy series to sink into. Start with Bad Prince for the clearest doorway into the world, then keep going in order to watch Monroe build out her royal playground, one scandal, one baby, and one very inconvenient love story at a time.
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