Silk and Rags

Princess Violet has only ever wanted to be normal, never liking the palace which she considered confinement. But one day she meets a servant in her palace different from the rest, he is brave and rude, honest and caring, kind and loving but hides a mysterious past. Violet finds comfort in the boy who she isn't support to know and soon they start to fall in love. A love that is illegal. A love that could kill them both in so many ways. But when people start suspecting them as lovers, Violet must make a choice. Say in the world and Palace she has always known, but lose her only love? Or run with him, to the ends of the earth? But whatever she chooses will have equally deadly consequences for them both. Sacrifice his life to love him. Or save him by not loving him.
This book will tear at you soul, mind and body as it questions the things we have learned and the things we know not of. And will love be enough to save Violet and her love, or will her life of watching from the inside continue?