a daring rescue a difficult choice sophie desperately wants to get away from her stepmothers jealousy and believes escape is her only chance to be happy then a young man named gabe arrives from hagenheim castle claiming she is betrothed to his older brother and everything twists upside down this could be sophies one chance at freedombut can she trust another person to keep her safe gabe defied his parents rose and wilhelm by going to find sophie and now he believes they had a right to worry the girls inner and outer beauty has enchanted him though romance is impossibleshe is his brothers future wife and gabe himself is betrothed to someone elsehe promises himself he will see the mission through no matter what when the pair flee to the cottage of the seven they find helpbut also find their feelings for each other have grown now both must not only protect each other from the dangers around themthey must also protect their hearts