Princess Maritza

A straw hat races across the windswept downs, and the girl chasing it tells Desmond Ellerey she means to win a destiny—or die fighting. She is no ordinary schoolgirl: she is Princess Maritza.

On an English morning bright with rain-washed air and birdsong, Ellerey is brooding over the trouble that has cost him his career when a spirited stranger interrupts his solitude. Maritza is being taught at a fashionable girls’ school to become a proper wife; she has other ambitions. Royal blood and generations of Wallarian fighters, she says, have given her a purpose—and England feels less like refuge than confinement. Ellerey, drawn to her fierce certainty, may find his own hopes stirring again. But what will happen when Maritza leaves the school behind and begins her struggle for Wallaria?

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