Nineteen year old Charlotte Stonbroth has always dreamed of adventure, a life beyond her hilltop home. When soldiers come to her home requesting a man from each household must fight, she gets more of an adventure then she ever asked for. Charlotte knows she has to fight as her father is missing the majority of his left arm from the last war the king had. If her father died Charlotte and her nephew and three sisters would be living on the streets, in her mind each sister had a life ahead of them, but not her. Charlotte is very different from the girls in her kingdom she has hopes and dreams far beyond marriage and babies. She knew if she dies in this war it will be okay as she has no intention on walking the path life has set for her. So Charlotte leaves to join the army, will she be found out as a woman and be killed for her crimes? will her lack of skills have her killed on the battlefield or will her hot temper and viper tongue be the death of her?

An arranged marriage between a 15 year old girl from the wealthiest family in the kingdom and the future king may sound like it could have a happy outcome, but when the future king would rather spend all of the kingdoms money and escape into the night with mistresses than to actually act as king or as a husband, well then things become not so happily ever after