pstrongShe loves her kingdom...and the foreign usurper they hate. How can she choose between themstrongppbrppBeth finally understands. The despised foreigners are not what she believed. Nor is her noble role just a burdensome restraint. It also carries authority-and the obligation to use it wisely. Which might be more of a restraint than the proposed marriage she is evading. Now all she needs to do is convince an entire kingdom to respect the people they hate. ppbrppBefore she can even try, unraveling deceptions rock her land. A duchess mysteriously dies. Atrocities in Tower Woods come to light. The governing assembly is being manipulated. The cry of Beth's heart is the last thing anyone cares about. As for loving a despicable foreigner-intolerable!ppbrppTristan would do anything to help Beth, but his foreign hands are tied. The only thing he can do, emmustem do, is kill the enormous vixicats that terrorize the Wilde-beasts that have proven invincible for over a century. If he conquers