ORELIA never wanted to take up the mantle of knight. But after her heart was broken by her first and only love, and her family turned her out to avoid a scandal, she saw no other way to protect herself from ruin. Shouldering the weight of her sword and the unrelenting loneliness of standing unwanted amongst the peerage, she forges herself into a pillar of loyalty and strength. It isn't until she is sent to guard the vulnerable farms near the country's...