Crown Reclaimed: She Who Rises From Betrayal

Jesse Taylor took the throne of Lacethia and then moved his wife down to the rank of concubine so that he could marry Molly Webb, the eldest daughter of the Grand General. The wife was Lucy Stone, Grand Princess of Montvale. She had come into Lacethia under a name that was not hers to treat the illness Jesse was carrying, and she had worked from behind him after that, with her own money and her own people, until the succession fell to him. Almost none of that was known outside the two of them. Lucy asked for the divorce and took back everything she had put into him, the funding and the political weight both. Montvale's cavalry rode up to the walls of the Lacethian capital and the city was surrounded.