• Princess Loretta Alora Sintervive's coming-of-age ceremony is interrupted by an invasion is which her parents are killed, and she is enslaved by the invader's son, who acted as a spy and the princess's(I'm calling her Alora) tutor on foreign cultures. The son, (so far he's Marcus) tries to save Alora from the worst of her enslavement because he has come to love her. But problem soon arises when his father, called Splint, takes her and leaves without telling Marcus. But Alora is strong, and will not submit to being treated as a slave,she continues to fight for her lost kingdom and her freedom, and, to the great annoyance of Splint, refuses to bow to him. While Splint is attempting to break Alora, his son is fighting through forces of gristly men to find her.