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<p>CHAPTER ONE<br><i>The Princess</i><br><i> </i><br><i>I</i>t was a gloomy, overcast day, like all days were, when the princess first saw them. The two of them, who would change her life. There was nothing to herald their appearance, no collection of birds or arrangement of tea leaves to mark their arrival. If anything, the convent was more quiet than usual. The nuns had just finished the midmorning service and scattered to their cells for private prayer. The abbess was shut in her chamber.<br> <br>Only the princess was out in the garden, wandering along the stone wall that overlooked the sea. Here, near the old well, the wall dipped down to her knees, and an ancient gate led to a stairway that curved to the rocky beach below. She was bundled in furs, wincing against the blast of wind that swept up from the sea and made the bare trees rattle around her.<br> <br>She was not supposed to be out here. She should have been in her cell, too, but she did not follow the rules the way the others did, and the abbess had instructed them to give her wide berth. No one knew why, only that she ’d arrived one night on horseback accompanied by three armed guards, who carried in a large chest, pla

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Author

Carolyn Turgeon

Publisher

Crown Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307589989

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Young Adult

Rating

3.62 / 5 (4,711 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14