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She was never supposed to wake up in twelfth-century Jerusalem.
Yet after a mysterious fall into a well, a modern woman opens her eyes to a world she knows only from history-and to a name that isn't hers; Hyacintha, the wife of King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem.
There is only one problem.
Everyone hates her.
Hyacintha had been cold, sharp-tongued, politically calculating, and notoriously cruel. She despised the court, had little affection for her husband, and had made herself the bitter enemy of Baldwin's sister, Sibylla. Even the young Baldwin V, Sibylla's five-year-old son and heir to the kingdom, had never been spared her disdain.
But the woman who wakes in Hyacintha's body remembers none of that.
Gentle, warm-hearted, easily moved to tears, fond of flowers and sweet things, she has no idea why everyone looks at her as though she is a threat-or why the masked king she supposedly married watches her with an affection she cannot understand.
As Jerusalem stands between fragile peace and war, she must learn to survive a court that believes she is pretending to have changed, while Baldwin struggles with a question of his own:
If the woman he loved was cruel enough to hurt everyone around her, what does it mean when she suddenly becomes someone entirely different?
And if this new Hyacintha is not the woman he married ... who, exactly, is she?