The Royal Siren Collection

Marie Schaerer, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant, is accused of harlotry on the eve of her arranged marriage to the illegitimate son of a Duke. She is jailed, robbed of her innocence, whipped in public, and banished from the city. Injured and close to death, Marie is found by a group of traveling whores. Her only chance for survival is to become one. Driven by her intense hatred of the men that ruined her life and her burning desire for revenge, Marie takes on a new identity and returns to the city.

Marie and her husband Michel Adler have a happy life until Michel has to go to war against the Hussites for König Sigismund but does not come back. She not believe on his dead and starts her journey to find out what really happened to him.

In 1427, Lady Maria Van Arnstein is informed that her beloved husband Michel Van Arnstein was murdered in a battle against the Hussitas. However he was actually betrayed by his ambitious cousin Hettenhein that wants his lands and castle. The Pope's Great Inquisitor Janus Suppertour meets King König Sigismund and tells that he wants Maria for him. Meanwhile Maria does not find blood in Michel's sword and believes that he is alive. She asks to the king for a period to seek out Michel and Sigismund grants ten days to her. She leaves the Hohenstein Castle and heads to the lands of the independent Solkony that are preparing to a war against the Hussitas that want the right of free will to follow the religion they want. Along her journey, Maria will meet leaders and will help to bring peace to Solkony. But her beloved Michel is amnesic and does not recall his previous life with her.