Aimée Carter writes fantasy and contemporary stories for children and young adults. From The Goddess Test to Royal Blood, her series use pressure on family, loyalty, and public identity to move their characters forward.
Totally addictive and packed full of glamour, scandal and romance, Royal Blood is The Princess Diaries with murder, for fans of One Of Us Is Lying, Red, White And Royal Blue and The King Is Dead. Kicked out of her American boarding school, Evan is sent to live with her estranged father, the King of England. Her existence as his illegitimate daughter is top secret - until someone leaks it to the press. Suddenly she's the focus of a thousand lurid headlines, plus the hatred of her stepmother the Queen and half-sister Princess Maisie. Then the royal scandal intensifies... After Evan is seen disappearing with a journalist's son at a party, he is found dead and she becomes the primary suspect in a murder investigation. Did "the Killer Princess" really do it? It seems that only the Queen's gorgeous nephew Kit will help Evan clear her name. But can she really trust anyone at the palace?
The Honey POP interview follows Carter’s move into royal intrigue and the questions of image, scandal, and trust in Royal Scandal.
The Honey POP · March 26, 2024
More About Aimee Carter
Aimée Carter writes across children’s, young adult, and adult fiction. Her official biography notes more than a dozen books ↗, from The Goddess Test and the Blackcoat Rebellion to the Animox and Royal Blood series ↗.
Carter’s young adult novels use fantasy and court intrigue to test loyalty, power, and the stories people tell about themselves. In The Honey POP interview, she discusses Royal Scandal’s royal-media premise ↗ and the complications that arrive when a public role becomes personal ↗.
The Royal Blood trilogy sits alongside Carter’s earlier series rather than replacing them: each cycle changes the rules of its world while keeping relationships under pressure. Bloomsbury’s author page supplies the publisher context for her broader children’s and young adult list ↗.
