Theola would have done anything to get out of England, but escape was proving more confining, more

dangerous than her former prison. She had always been nothing more than a glorified Cinderella - a poor little cousin who waited hand-and-foot on the elegant young Lady Catherine Bourne. But now Lady Catherine had left England and was sailing through the driatic on her way to marry the !ing of "avonia. nd Theola was sailing with her# She was free at last# But when the ship doc!ed in the "avonian harbor, Theola$s new-found freedom vanished as %uic!ly as the morning mist. The peaceful little !ingdom was under seige, its imperious monarch overthrown by his own people. nd before she had time to unpac! Lady Catherine$s bags, Theola found herself in an empty palace guarded by the fiery, handsome man who had led the revolution - the passionate and unpredictable con%ueror of "avonia&less'