Marianne was the chosen heir of King Leander Albright, but not everyone was willing to recognize her ascension to the Crystal Throne. Faced with the possibility of being passed over for Zachariah Blackburn, a monster in human flesh, Marianne had no choice but to seek the princess Leander had exiled years before, the woman that once upon a time had been hers.
She still loved her.
There was no guarantee that Florence would want to come back though. She had always been hated by the king for being born a hermaphrodite. When she got wounded helping rescue a town from a rabid werewolf her father exiled her without hesitation and made Marianne his heir.
The two didn't get a chance to talk before Florence had to go, and Marianne could only imagine what the redhead thought of her.
And now, almost a decade later, she went in search of the princess, hoping for her help to set their kingdom straight, knowing the other woman might very well want her dead.