Red, White & Royal Blue

Alex is the son of the first female President of the United States. Henry is a Prince of Wales. After a diplomatic incident at a royal wedding turns into an international tabloid story, the two are forced into a fake friendship for the cameras — which becomes a real one, which becomes something neither of them expected, which has to be hidden because the political stakes of two young men in their positions falling in love are enormous, and then doesn't stay hidden. McQuiston uses the romance genre — historically dismissed as lightweight — to make a genuinely political argument: about who gets to be visible in power, about the specific absurdity of a world where falling in love becomes a national security question, about what changes when people in positions that matter simply refuse to keep being who they are a secret. The premise is wish-fulfillment — a kinder America, a monarchy that bends, a love story that gets a real ending — and that wish-fulfillment is itself the point. For the Be Yourself bundle, this is the most purely joyful entry: not the story of what it costs to be yourself, but the story of what becomes possible when you decide the cost is worth it and the world, against expectation, makes room.