After Regina rescues Snow White from the runaway horse, she becomes engaged to King Leopold. However, he quickly learns that Regina is less than thrilled with the arrangement. So he sees a chance to strengthen Mist Haven's ties with a neighboring kingdom, and proposes that Regina marry the new king of Sherwood. This time, though, the decision is entirely in her hands and she agrees to the arrangement. Regina arrives in Sherwood already carrying a dark secret. While she and King Robert-often just called "Robin"-have an immediate connection, she learns she will be Sherwood's first foreign born queen and the court is already suspicious of her because of that fact. Can she prove herself to her new people and will her secret affect her marriage to a man she falls further in love with each day?

This has been a long work in progress. This fic takes place in an Alternate Universe where the Dark Lord killed Harry Potter during the final task of the TriWizard tournament.