This is an alternate cover edition for ASIN B01KEO4E3U When you’ve spent all your life in the same quiet village, what is there to fear? As Clarabelle Weaver passes her seventeenth year, she still lives under the protection and shadow of the Great Lord’s fortress. The lord’s men patrol the land and keep the villagers safe, but no one has seen or heard much from the lord himself for years. Then the Great Lord passes and Clara is abducted and taken to the fortress that has overshadowed her entire life. Lucias, the new lord, is hunting for a woman to bear his heir and ensure the safety of the kingdom, and Clara is his choice. With nowhere to run and no one to trust, Clara must match her will against a man with dark magic at his beck and call. But is there more to Lucias than the darkness she sees? Could this quiet, patient man be enough to replace her longing for freedom?

A royal wedding. A fiery heroine. And a brazen act of sabotage that could topple a kingdom. It has been five months since Clarabelle Weaver saved the life of the infamous Great Lord and happily accepted his unexpected marriage proposal. With their wedding less than a week away, she is finally stepping into the unfamiliar world beyond her village to face nobility she never knew existed. But it's not only them who are interested in her presence. The enemy is also stirring for this historic occasion. Their focus not on the man they see as their reviled "Dark Lord", but on her as the young woman who supposedly carries his heir. Clara must weave a path through attempted assassinations and poisonings whilst also proving to the court that she's suitable to become their ruler's Great Lady... all before taking their vows. But has her training prepared her for an attack that could send the kingdom into war?