The General's Last Stand

Astrid Sinclair wants her husband cured, and the medicine for what he has is not to be found anywhere near home. She resigns her command not long after the wedding and spends three years away looking for it. She comes back to the Grayson house with the cure in hand. Chasel Grayson has been seeing Roxy Durant, a woman who says she was born with a sacred pearl and is a holy maiden, and he asks Astrid to give up her place as first wife so he can marry Roxy instead. On the wedding day Astrid divorces him in front of everyone gathered there and walks out with no rank and no standing left to her. Asher Bellamy has just taken the throne. He has been in love with her for a long time and tells her so.