Marie is living happily again with Michel in their new residence, Kibitzstein Castle. When Marie's mortal enemy learns that Marie is pregnant again, she hatches a dastardly plot to have Marie abducted and declared dead. At first the plan seems to work, and Michel grieves deeply over the loss of Marie, who was the love of his life. Soon Hulda and her allies start urging him to marry again. In the meantime, Marie is sold as a slave and carried off to Russia. Only at great mortal danger to herself and her child does she succeed in finding her way back home. And there she is stunned to learn that Michel has married another woman. In this third installment of the Marie Series, bestselling author Iny Lorentz transports readers to richly rendered fifteenth-century Germany, where courage and true love conquer all.