When Lia fled from her arranged marriage to Prince Jaxon in Morrighan, he pursued her because she was a political embarrassment to him and because she aroused his curiosity. Lia is placed in a room with Prince Jaxon Tyrus Rafferty, whom Lia knew as a farmer named Rafe in Terravin and whom she fell in love with. To intimidate Lia, the Komizar singles out Wather's baldrick from the spoils collected from Lia's brother's patrol and chooses it for himself. Kaden tells the Komizar that he spared Lia's life because she has "the gift" and could be of use to them. Speaking in Lia's native Morrighese, he treats her with derision. Taken to the seat of power known as Sanctum Hall, Lia meets the Legion of Governors and the Komizar, a man not much older than her brother Walther. Kaden has disobeyed his Komizar's orders to kill her and instead is bringing her back alive. Lia is struggling to cope with her brother Walther's death at the hands of the Vendans who massacred his entire patrol. Princess Arabella Celestine Idris Jezelia known as Lia and Rafe are prisoners of Venda's Assassin, Kaden, who is taking them to the barbarian kingdom of Venda. The Heart of Betrayal picks up exactly where the first novel, Kiss of Deception, left off.
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