After having lost half his family to Marshal Zarius’s cruelty, King Laurent de Nemori must turn his attention to restoring his broken kingdom and establishing peace between his land and Torino. At his new wife’s insistence, he tackles the latter himself, risking everything by leaving his inheritance in her hands to negotiate with her family. Queen Brigitta, meanwhile, might have told her husband that she could take care of Rochegude, but she underestimates the depths of loathing these people have for her and Zarius’s remaining conscripts. It is not only the commons: Laurent’s wounded siblings have distanced themselves from her and each other, magnifying the rifts across both the household and the Valley, and threatening the illusion of stability Brigitta is trying so hard to maintain. Clarice, the family’s guardian angel, knows why forces are at work to stir up the strife preventing peace under a unified Nemori banner. She also knows that to convince her mortal family to handle these upsets together she will have to provide a miracle.