Elsewhere in this dreadful castle was his Princess. She had been abducted and brought here to be used as a bargaining chip between two powerful and ruthless states. Her own land, the one in which Edward was simply a common peasant, was the buffer between the two larger states. It had always remained independent and neutral. The sudden death of the Monarch, Queen Alicia, had been a shock, but the realisation that Princess Malia had disappeared from her suite had caused chaos.

Malwat

Getting younger by the day; getting older by the minute....