Francesca was the youngest child of the royal house—the wild one, the untamable flame that no courtly tutor or governess had ever been able to extinguish. While her elder brother had abandoned his claim to the throne, scandalizing the court by choosing a common-born maiden over duty, and her sister was already betrothed to a foreign prince, destined to be queen of another land, Francesca remained the last in line.

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