Twenty-year-old Eva is the princess of Kyonos, a small island country in the Aegean Sea. Her dreams aren't big: she just wants a life of wedded bliss with a man who loves her for who she is. But life isn't so simple for princesses and it seems her dream will never come true. Her father has arranged for her to marry a man for political gain. But six months before the wedding is to take place, Eva's got a new bodyguard—Makhail Nabatov, a man whose cool, calm demeanor never cracks and whose emotions never show on his chiseled face. He's beginning to awaken feelings inside Eva's heart that she herself doesn't understand...