Prince Tristan Faasa was never destined for the throne. That was always his brother, Michael. The same brother responsible for both Tristan?s tormented childhood and the scar that mars his face. When their father dies, Michael is set to assume the throne, and Tristan is set to steal it. The leader of a secret rebellion, Tristan will stop at nothing to end his brother?s reign. But when Michael?s new betrothed, Lady Sara Beatreaux arrives, Tristan finds himself in the middle of a new kind of war. The kind that begs the question of what?s more important, the crown or the woman about to wear it.