She is forced to take the throne after the mysterious murders of her father and brothers. He is a dangerous assassin who escapes yet again. He's a young King who can't forget a maid who risks her life to warn him. Spies turn the hands of allies and enemies. Murders ravage the countryside, leaving neither Kings nor commoners unscathed. Romance and regicide, vengeance and victory, assassins and spies, all while pirates roam the seas and the entire Land is brought to war....