Her beauty surpa.s.sed all. She knew that, but as the saying goes, 'There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. 'From the day Le-anne 's father laid his eyes on her, he knew she was the answer to his own royal father 's failures during the previous reign. She would be the one to appease the emperor of Nevoria and gain an alliance for their country by becoming his empress...