Falling Hard for the Royal Guard

TikTok phenom Clawson draws from personal experience to take readers inside modern life in the Tower of London in her slow-burning debut romance. As the daughter of a beefeater, Maggie Moore, 26, is one of a tight-knit community living in the tower. Quirky and self-assured, Maggie sustains herself on her obsession with British history, Tower ghost stories, and romance novels. But she’s also struggling after a devastating breakup and in the face of cruel daily harassment by her boss and coworkers in her dead-end job selling tickets to Tower tourists. Then she (literally) bumps into Freddie Guilford, a gorgeous royal guard who looks like one of the characters from her romance novels. Though she’s sworn off relationships, Maggie is immediately love-struck. For his part, Freddie, the scion of a powerful family, wants to carve out a path for himself unrelated to his family’s pedigree and can’t afford distractions. As Freddie fights his feelings for Maggie, Maggie works to get the unflappable guard’s attention and Clawson dispenses plenty of genuine Tower history lessons. Readers will be charmed. (May)