the Pianist and Prince

Audiences know him as Nico. The music he guards most closely belongs to Niran.Thai-Swiss concert pianist Niran Suthipong has built an international career performing other people's masterpieces. Onstage, he is the polished and celebrated Nico audiences expect. In private, he composes music too personal to let anyone hear.Prince Théodore of Valenne has spent his life performing a different role. As chairman of his family's cultural foundation, he is expected to remain gracious, dependable and devoted to duties chosen long before he had a voice in them.When a famous composer withdraws from a benefit concert at Villa Bellacorte, the future of a historic Lake Como music school is placed at risk. Théodore discovers Niran's unfinished suite and proposes an audacious solution: complete it and perform it in ten days.Niran refuses to become another royal patron's carefully packaged discovery. But late-night rehearsals reveal that Théodore is more than a title. A gifted private cellist, he understands the questions hidden inside Niran's music-and may be the second voice the composition has always needed.As piano and cello draw them closer, the foundation begins reshaping Niran's deeply personal work into a flattering story about royal influence. With his artistic independence threatened and Théodore facing a prestigious diplomatic appointment, both men must decide whether they will continue performing the identities expected of them or finally choose lives of their own.Set among moonlit music rooms, Lake Como villas and the intimate world behind public performance, The Pianist and the Prince is a sophisticated M/M royal romance featuring forced collaboration, artistic vulnerability, mature heroes, Thai-Swiss identity, slow-burning desire, emotional intimacy and a guaranteed happy ending.Book Five and the concluding standalone romance in the Behind Closed Doors series.