ELITES

ELITES (Elite #1)

New Adult / Queer Fiction

Lucas Edvin Hale doesn't do things without a reason. Not friendships, not parties, and certainly not people.

As the son of the Viscount of Finland and Norway's quietly-royal representative at Elites Academy, the most prestigious institution for the continent's nobility and heirs, Lucas operates like a chess player who memorised the board before anyone else sat down. His mission this term is straightforward: get close to Nicholas Johan Zakari, crown prince of Finland, and use that proximity to unlock the political access his father has demanded of him his whole life.

What he doesn't account for is Nicholas himself.

Cold where Lucas expected entitled. Deliberate where Lucas expected careless. Nicholas asks questions nobody thinks to ask, touches Lucas with a precision that shouldn't feel like anything — and does. As the two circle each other through Judo halls, late-night texts, and carefully staged coffee meetings, Lucas finds the thing he built his whole life around — control — beginning to slip. Not because Nicholas is manipulating him. But because Lucas isn't entirely sure he minds.

Set against a world where bloodlines are currency and every alliance has a price, Elites is a slow-burn queer romance about a boy who was raised to betray everyone first, and what happens when someone looks at him like they already know that, and stays anyway.

For fans of Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston and Young Royals.