Born a com .moner,., Eleano*?#r has^$ s_]=pent years quietly pro=tecting her hu:?@sba!n.d,/_ Duke Adrian,[( and hi!)s kingdom. Ye/ t he has always # +mi@s:_taken her loyalt?y for ambitio=n, be?l!ieving s[-he marrie+( `d him o+.;nly $
f(or#. s
?]tat] \us and po=w-;er. Aft=er being publicly humi=liated[ * and he@]artlessly cast aside by =$the man she lov^%es,_ Ele
 anor finally giv_ +e(s u
p on their mar*.?-riage and wal!_ks a%)way/_.
Only afte]]:r she leaves )does Adr` ia#)+n disco_:ver t]hat/ the myst#\erio.u+(s maske:d _warrior w+`ho repeated.*ly) saved his% li\@fe w;-a
 s )^- Elea()%!nor ?al
*l along. What -h-:e stil`:l does not know i,s t/h+/at she +is also the long-l-(
ost %heir to a po;\werful em_p=ire.
When^;+ El?ean+or reclaims her identity and the p= _ower t: hat rightfully belongs [to h
er, Adrian %:
fi+_nally rea\li@[zes wha!:t@ he has lost%^/. `@Meanwhi[le, an=)! (:!am[b@$]itious?/ regent l,aunch]$es a cou[]p, p^lunging the entire kin(gdom !.into cr$: is)+#is.
With both +=h!.is]-; fo% :rme]*(r wife and his \`]?!rea-lm in danger, Ad $_.rian* is willing to sacrifice eve%?[$ryth ,ing 
,$to prote@^ct Elea-nor. But th:/is time, he is no `-\lo, *nger fig);+hting to win ba!ck her love—%only fo :r-
t=he chanc)+e to earn he_[\,r fo\!,rgive(n+[#ess.