Anastasia of Eldonia once had a loving father and slept on a mattress and pillows at night with a fire on the hearth. But when her father dies, her stepmother, Olga of Dorre, shows her true colors. She forces Anastasia to work for her night and day. It is the only way she knows how to channel her grief and self-pity.
One day though, when Anastasia is suffering from her stepmother's wrath in the form of wounds, one of the Princes finds her and brings her to the palace to help her recover. As Anastasia stays with the royal family and gets to know them, she finds herself drawn to both the prince and his twin brother. She finds she can laugh again. She discovers love again. Is this the perfect life she's worked so hard to achieve?
When the prince falls ill, it is all Anastasia can do to keep from dying another small death. First her father, now the man she loves? But who does she really love? What will she do if he dies? How will she hold her already-fragmented heart together?
Elliot Jensen and Elliot Fintry have a lot in common. They share the same name, the same house, the same school, oh and they hate each other but, as they will quickly learn, there is a fine line between love and hate.