Fantasy. Fiction. Romance. Historical Fiction. HTML:A tale of castles and assassins, ambition and envy, toil and desireâ??and one woman's three very different livesâ??from the New York Timesâ??bestselling author.

On her seventeenth birthday, Megan of Chaumont discovers she'll be sold as a bride to the brutish Volodane familyâ??within hours. Her father grants only that she may choose which one of the ruthless, grasping lord's three sons she weds: There's Rolf, the eldest, who is stern, ambitious, and loyal; Sebastian, the second son, is sympathetic, sly, and rebellious; or Kai, the youngest, who is bitter, brooding, and proud.

As shy, horrified Megan flees the welcome dinner for her in-laws-to-be, she finds an enchanted mirror that will display how her life unrolls with each man, as if she were living it out in a breath. But there is no smooth "happily ever after" in her choices.

Deaths and honors, joys and agonies, intrigues and escapes await her in a remote, ramshackle keep, where these rough but complex men reveal one side and then another of their jagged charactersâ??and bring out new aspects of Megan, too. But the decisions of one teenaged marriage-pawn reverberate much farther than any of them have could have guessed . . .

"Evokes the medieval world of poetry and images we have seen in the paintings of Bourne-Jones and Millais as well as the poetry of the Pre-Raphaelites. It is a world of great beauty, difficult choices, and uncertain endings that Ms. Hendee evokes with skill." â??Kings River