Volena's parents were forcing her into a loveless marriage, unlike their own. She only had one choice left. Volena would escape her own heavily guarded castle and sneak into another to rescue a captured prince.
Volena would marry the one person that no one wanted her to. She didn't even care that she had never met him. If caught she would have a fate worse than death, she would find herself married to a tyrant, his father. Could she find love? Would the risk be worth it?
That was only the least of her problems. If she did manage to snatch an imprisoned prince, she had nowhere to hide him to marry without starting a massive war.
Volena found the one way to find happiness was to become the High Priestess of all the lands. She would become the Desert Queen.