I was married by order, but I didn’t accept it. I thought I had managed to get to know my husband—but I was wrong. And now I know that for his goals he is capable of anything, and he has planned something insane… I just can’t figure out how to stop him. Yes, our marriage can be annulled, and my husband and I both want that—yet… how many of these “buts” there are, and what should I, a girl from an ancient lineage, do when the life of my father and the future of the entire empire are at stake? Should I quietly wait aside, as befits a lady? Or should I, after all, decide to break the rules and act… the way my heart tells me to? (Second part of the duology. The first is called “A Marriage by Order”)