No one ever saw Eliza Whitmore as fit for the royal court. She was always judged too fierce, too blunt, too different. Yet in the middle of the royal bride selection, she shocks everyone by bracing a collapsing palace column with her bare hands and saving the Dowager Empress. Emperor Adrian claims her then and there. Sent to the forgotten Graystone Manor, Eliza transforms the broken grounds into a prosperous wheat farm, and with time, she becomes the one person Adrian can truly trust.
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