He is feared by enemies and avoided by friends. Tabloids and scandal papers write about him, yet his life is hidden from curious eyes behind the high stone walls of his ancestral castle. Behind his back they call him Bluebeard. But at the age of thirty-six he is the Great Master, the head of the Order, a secret adviser to the king.
Even the gnomes can’t assess his fortune, and singers and actors envy his appearance… He can handle any trouble—except his five children, who have decided, at any cost, to find a mother for themselves. And it doesn’t matter to them that the girl they chose is a condemned prisoner, a “gift,” the payment of a debt…