Emmaline is a 17 year old girl living in the great Kingdom Katalonia. Her mother and father were the Duke and Duchess of the countyship Evergreen but that all changed when Emma was 5 and her father died and her mother had to remarry to Sir Richardson. Emma is treated like a slave in her own her own home until the day an invitation to the Royal ball arrived and Emma is convinced to go in secret. She dances and falls in love with Price Matthew but a few weeks after the ball a stranger comes to town who will test everything Emma believed about herself, her family, and the kingdom.