<<< Take Me Back to the Beginning! CHAPTER 2—THE ARRANGEMENT   It had taken four months of planning to birth this chance at catching the young lord’s eye. She still remembered the day her father had announced the arrangement. She’d set out for the Forgotten Knight, her father’s favorite pub, to drag him away from…

CHAPTER 1—A LADY’S JOURNEY    Emaile slid her long, slender finger along the edge of the carriage curtain, drawing it aside to peer out the back of the chocobo-drawn carriage at the snowcapped valleys of lower Coerthas. Her warm breath puffed from her small nose into the cold air like the smoke of a dragon.…