For starters, the heroine, Lady Somerset's entire family had just been beheaded by the king because Duke Somerset's popularity with the commoners had stirred suspicion and jealousy. She had barely escaped the city with her life.
Lady Blanche had successfully given birth to her brothers baby, a boy. Her husband was a proud father unaware that the child was not his. He had also not seen Blanche and her brother holding hands and smiling intimately behind his back but the prince's legal wife, the crown princess had seen it.
An unfamiliar woman with eyes that blazed with fire had risen out of a lake and said Blanche's name.
"I have so many questions.' Roland said. He covered his mouth with both hands and shook his head. His eyes were widened in disbelief.
"And I have zero answers." Sigrid lied.