This story tells of a poor peasant girl's impossible love for a rich city boy, and the disharmony of their two worlds

A king haunted by memories of his past...A young woman fighting againsther future...Torn from her home and all that is familiar, Arabella of Caelrith finds hers

After running away from home, Krystal is transported to a faraway kingdom where an evil tyrant is bent on taking the crown - and Krystal's hand in marriage. But

Peony has neither seen nor spoken to any man other than her father, a wealthy Chinese nobleman. Nor has she ever ventured outside the cloistered women's quarter

Sold into slavery to the dealer Lalloc by her mother when her stepfather seduces her, the beautiful 15-year-old Maia is almost raped by Genshed, one of Lalloc's