Lady Samantha Montgomery was born the third daughter of the Duke and Duchess. The Duke wanted a son and found his wife unable to give him one. He decided to raise Samantha as the son he always wanted. He sought out the teachers of his time to teach Samantha skills that only a man would be privileged to know. Samantha's father died when she was thirteen. Her mother remarried a man who did not approve of her upbringing. He insisted that Samantha be schooled in becoming the Lady she was always meant to be. As Samantha reaches her seventeenth birthday, Prince Michael is scheduled to go through the countryside searching for his future bride. Samantha's two sisters are capable and beautiful. They welcome the attention of the Prince while Samantha does her best to remain invisible to a royal future. How can this young girl effect the future of the royal family as she strives to stay out of the way? This story is a journal of that life and how it developed around her and the people she loved and lost.