Red, white & royal blue. Casey McQuiston. 2023.

When his mother became President of the United States, Alex Claremont-Diaz was promptly cast as the American equivalent of a young royal. Handsome, charismatic, genius - his image is pure millennial marketing gold for the White House. There’s only one problem: Alex has a beef with an actual prince, Henry, across the pond. When the tabloids get hold of a photo involving an Alex/Henry altercation, U.S/British relations take a turn for the worst. 

Heads of family and state and other handlers devise a plan for damage control: stage a truce between the two rivals. What at first begins as a fake, instagrammable, friendship grows deeper, and more dangerous, than either Alex or Henry could have imagined. Soon Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret romance with a surprisingly unstuffy Henry that could derail the presidential campaign and upend two nations. It raises the question: Can love save the world after all? Where do we find the courage, and the power, to be the people we are meant to be? And how can we learn to let our true colours shine through?