The Remarried
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When her husband is put to death, Eleanor Vessen-Rivetti is supposed to commit honor suicide, according to the customs. In the last minute, she is saved by the Council who deemed her fit to remarry. The Republic of Shires offers some childless wives of executed men the possibility of marrying men from the high society, who thus repay the Republic for the privileges they were given. Eleanor is reluctant to the idea until she finds out who she has been chosen to marry - Saul Wintercourt, the son of the Senator who signed her husband's death sentence. And she realizes that it can lead much further than to revenge...
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