For Raelynn the sword is everything. With no mother and her father as general, Raelynn knows she is destined to become second in command of the army. But her father believes she isn't ready. Desperate to prove she can help lead Raeslon's army, Raelynn agrees to protect a neighboring kingdom's princess. An easy feat, or so she thinks. With an assassin out for blood and the daring son of a former captain by her side, Raelynn must choose. Her life or that of a foreign princess? What she has always known or learning what love is?