At 16, the pressure is on Eliza. Being the only heir to her father's land she must marry and bare a son, or she will lose her father's property. With her father's health failing the rush is on to find a proper suitor.
When a woman of famous and true beauty discovers she is to be married to a greedy and callous king forty years her senior, she must escape or else spend the rest of her life surrounded by ugliness.