Description
Laesa Majestas: Derived from Latin origin. Leze-majesty, or injured majesty; high treason. It is a phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any offense against the king's person or dignity. The Kingdom of Vladizar rests comfortably in the corner of the Eurasian continent; its tiny size of 50,000 square miles hiding it from any major attention. When the current ruler decides it is almost time for him to step down, his first decree is that his eldest and only daughter is to be... betrothed. Princess Adelaide Townsend's eighteenth birthday has barely passed when she is told in order to assume the throne she has to marry, and to say she's upset is an understatement. When she finds out her suitor is the youngest prince of the Taigan Empire, which is roughly forty times the size of her kingdom, and that she is to marry him in one month's time during the once-every-two-hundred-years sacred Ceremony of the Pale Moon, she is ready to come unglued. That is, until she finds out her kingdom will be destroyed on that very same night. When Adelaide discovers a sinister plot that has been brewing for over two hundred years with the intent to overthrow her kingdom as well as gain immeasurable power, she realizes she has to do everything she can to stop it from unfolding. No one can be trusted, so by recruiting the help of her unwanted fiance, she must uncover the twisted truth about herself, her family history and the roles that different people play in the plot, as well as save her kingdom and everything she loves before it all disappears forever. Loyalties will be tested. Trust will be broken. Lives hang in the balance. Can the princess change the terrible fate that is destined for her and her kingdom before it is too late?