When Elias Vallerious is threatened, he will do whatever it is in his power to devise something that would get him a step ahead from his enemy, this time though, his enemy is his own daughter. Her father does not like it when he is out of control and his control slips when she has talked back on him in front of his courtiers. His daughter—the pliant Princess of Castille, heir to the throne—for the first time, has shown her teeth and defied him.
Eleana does not want to think so badly of the situation but she finds the preparation of her marriage rash and careless. Her mother is not even showing yet, her belly still flat but her father is so eager to get rid of her already. She does not really know whatever his intention is on speeding things up but it certainly is not to secure her reputat
