The birth of the duchesses second daughter did not go like the first. Most thought that both mother and baby wouldn't live. But when the child was born she was granted one fairy godmother and the gift bestowed upon her and her mother was life. Now she is seventeen and has known since she was little what that gift cost her. The fairy used part of a dragon's heart to save her life and now she is cursed to forever be trapped between human and dragon. The duchess is constantly ill, the servants and nobles avoid her, and her father keeps her confined to the castle and it's grounds. And to make things worse, as the year turns towards summer, Prince Calev is announced to be coming on his way to the southern borders. The dragonslayer Prince.

Snow White, daughter of one of the most prominent ranchers in the area, claims her stepmother is trying to kill her. Dalton Prince- the owner of the cabin she takes up residence in thanks to a passing storm- thinks she's a little soft in the head. It's no matter though, he can just return her to her family, no harm done. But the young woman, it would seem, has other plans entirely. She claims she can't go home and she has every intention of staying with Dalton to help him raise the seven boys he's taken in over the years. They're her purpose now. Still Dalton will do whatever it takes to return the young woman to where she belongs- under the care of her father and stepmother who can keep an eye on their addlebrained charge. Except as he's met with trouble from every side he starts to wonder who is telling the truth in all of this and just how much trouble this strange but attractive young woman will bring upon him, his boys, and up until now his somewhat ordered life.