Some secrets refuse to stay buried... When Lunara receives an Imperial summons to participate in a bridal selection she is forced into a cut-throat court game where the cost of losing could be her life. Lunara must keep her true identity secret even from her new friends or risk the wrath of the empire. She does all she can to discourage the attention of the seven royal bachelors. Then a letter from home changes everything, and she must win the heart of one of the princes. As her enemies close in, Lunara is forced to do the one thing she swore she'd never do: trust the prince with the truth. Romance blossoms and tension builds, but their courtship puts her in the cross-hairs of her mother's murderer. Will history repeat itself? Can she survive the treachery and betrayal of court-life to win the freedom she desperately seeks?