Guinevere Alice Dornez always did what was expected of her. She married had children and ran her husbands home. She only ever asked for her own way in raising her children. As they grow and are sent off to the academe by there father, Guinevere, feels lost and realizes how much she hates her life. After her husband takes a mistress and moves her into a mountain shatu so she is out of the way, she meets Walter, the Dornez family secret. There is something about him that draws her in even with that infuriating nickname he refuses to stop calling her. What is this feeling? can she get over the feeling of betrail her husband left? Can she get past her feeling of betrail she feels when she thinks of Walter?