I've long been a reluctant reader of romances because the genre is so saturated with stories of cis, white, straight couples, and I've seen e-damned-nough of those. But the premise of this book--emails from a Nigerian prince claiming to be a New York grad student's fiance turning out to be legit--was too intriguing to ignore, and I adored the results. It has everything a good romance needs: royalty, mistaken identity, an orphan with a tragic backstory, hot sex, plot twists, betrayal, reconciliation, hot sex again (now featuring: a cave!). And it has lots of killer bonuses, too: a message about the importance of female friendship, protagonists of color, a badass queer royal assistant, a princess who's also a scientist, and a surprising number of excellent jokes. I await the next book in this series with breath nearly as bated as Naledi's when Thabiso is around.