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Charlotte Rivers opened her eyes to the sound of candles crackling by the bed. She stared up at the roses embroidered on the canopy for three seconds, and then her mind split open like someone had poured boiling oil straight into her skull. Every memory from her past life came rushing back at once. She had spent three years locked away in a forgotten wing of the palace. Isabelle had carved up her face with a shard of broken glass and forced something down her throat to kill the baby inside her. And at the very end, when the poisoned wine slid down Charlotte's own throat, she heard a steward shriek from the corridor. "By order of Prince Edward, Princess Charlotte stands guilty of high treason and collusion with the enemy. She is hereby sentenced to death by poison." Charlotte died without Edward Blackwood ever coming to see her. Not once.