A forsaken duchess and the disgraced knight who is willing to sacrifice everything to save her...When Duke Frederick of the medieval duchy of Austria is killed in battle without a male heir, the House of Babenberg is plunged into disarray. In the desperate hope of maintaining possession of their ancestral lands, the Austrian nobles name Frederick's only daughter, Elsea Babenberg, as the new duchess. Doubly cursed by a father who gave her neither his...