Aelys with golden hair

- We don't get married for her pleasure!" decreed Véronique, the governess of the young Aélys, in a severe tone.

Aélys de Croix-Givre has just learned that her father, before he died, had intended her for Prince Lothaire. She frightenedly rejected the idea of uniting with the descendant of the Waldsteins, who, always, were "as cruel and terrible as the worst wild animals".

The prince is superb, haughty, satanic. Didn't he take pleasure, as a teenager, in having his servants whipped? Defeating is his passion. Aélys hates him, he knows it. The prospect of marrying him seduces him. Submitting this young fairy with golden hair will be a lot of fun...

In the prince's entourage, we are opposed to this marriage. To oust Aélys, the beautiful Sidonia, also of noble blood, is ready for anything.

Will Aélys and Lothaire marry? When the prince contemplates his fiancée, he sometimes passes, in his gaze, a strange sweetness...