Emerlyn Willows was somewhere she didn't want to be, even though it meant having her chance of a lifetime set in front of her. This place was the most treasured one in the country, and went by the name of the Beaufort Royal Palace. Em didn't want to be living there with thirty other young women, all vying for the same thing: The hand of one of the two princes. That's how the Queen's decided to find her two oldest sons wives. But it's not so simple: she loves game, and she's determined to find the perfect candidate. So forget true love, because Em's gonna have to fight to get what she wants. Well, more accurately, she's gonna have to play the game of a lifetime, which requires more than just intelligence- it requires courage, as the girls are navigating the passages under the castle, ones that haven't been used since soldiers marched to the battlefront more than a century ago. And the dangers that come with that aren't always physical-who knows what secrets Em could uncover... and how.