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Bridget has been rescued from the Queen's grasp, at a cost. As Ruad and Bridget attempt to save Declan, Bridget discovers the secrets that lay between her and her handsome mentor, secrets that change everything. But there is a lot more to the story Ruad hasn't told her yet. As her relationship with Ruad deepens, Bridget worries about breaking the heart of a man she can hardly remember. Until another tragedy strikes. Who's heart will she break? While Bridget struggles with her duty to her realm and her duty to herself as war breaks out in her kingdom.

Kidnapped by the Queen of Elphame, Bridget is stuck in her worst nightmare. Can her lover and her (former?) lover save her before it's too late? Or was she never meant to be saved?

In my frenzy, I ran into something without realizing it. Big hands closed over my shoulders as I gripped the chest they belonged to. Under other circumstances, I’d be elated. Green eyes stared back at me, his reddish hair hidden beneath a baseball cap, huge frame swallowing mine easily. Bridget had never considered herself special, odd definitely. But nothing worth looking at twice. And she had never cared to be looked at twice either. Until Declan, that is.

When sixteen-year-old Vernadine Dawn Turnipseed is asked to join the boys’ basketball team for Buford County High School in 1943, shock waves, riots and anger roll through her hometown of Spit’s Creek, Alabama with a fury. In a strange twist of fate, the once hated, despised and rejected Vernadine becomes the ‘Queen of Basketball’ and the unlikely hero of her hometown, county and state. But Vernadine has a secret; a secret that would devastate her newfound status in her community if anyone knew.