Rishe Irmgard Weitzner faces a familiar crisis: her fiancé publicly ends their engagement, and the ducal house threatens to shun her. Six lifetimes of reinvention, each ending in war and death, have not stopped her. She now wishes her seventh incarnation to be calm.
She ignores the looming danger of Arnold Hein, crown prince of Galkhein. He is destined to usurp the throne and wage a massive invasion. Worse, he killed her in the previous life. The shock grows when he proposes to her. To secure peaceful future, Rishe must weigh accepting his offer and uncover the reasons behind his cruelty to stop war.