Claimed by the Prince: The Forbidden Wet Nurs

Synopsis

Clara, a young widowed peasant, delivered goods to the castle and accidentally spent one passionate night with a stranger, fleeing before dawn—unaware he was Crown Prince Gabriel. Ten months later, she gave birth in her humble hut. A tyrannical lord threatened her mother-in-law's life to force himself upon her. To protect her family, Clara tearfully left her infant and a keepsake ring at the castle's side gate, hoping royal mercy would save the innocent life.Prince Gabriel returned victorious and found the baby with sapphire eyes—the mark of royal heirs. The overjoyed king ordered a nationwide search for wet nurses. Clara, fleeing the lord's grasp, applied and entered the castle. Miraculously, the prince would only drink her milk. She won the position, never realizing the child she nursed was her own flesh and blood—nor that the lofty prince was the man from the rose garden.Jealous noble nurse Isabella poisoned her milk; housekeeper Lillian framed her to destroy her hands. Each time, Gabriel fiercely protected Clara—raising her pay tenfold, granting authority, even defying the king to declare he would marry none but her. Yet class divides, village gossip, and the stain of "bastard" kept her at bay.Until the ring, the sapphire eyes, and the infant who recognized only her milk wove the truth full circle. She had never truly left him; he had always sought his rose-garden lady. From lowly widow to royal nurse, from contract to heartfelt love. When Gabriel knelt before all to marry her as princess, Clara finally knew: that ring was never just a token—it was his long-planned devotion. A courtly romance born of chance, crowned by truth—a mother raised by her son, and by love itself.