Songs They Did Not Sing

This is the story of the life of Anissa, the legitimized bastard daughter of a highborn lord and a whore, from the day she was born until her death. It is about love, between a daughter and her father, a wife and her husband, a mother and her child, and the love shared between two sisters. It is about power, who should wield it, and what happens to people who try to gain it. It is about kings and queens, lords and ladies, whores and serving girls. Mostly, it is about a woman learning the difficult way that despite what she'd been taught, life is not a song.