About the book: year / My name is Erricha Tillier. I was born twenty years ago on the estate of one of the most respected and ancient families, in the very heart of the Empire. Before I was born, I, as a long-awaited girl after a string of boys, was predicted to have a great future. Wealth, beauty, wedding with the crown prince, the title of Empress. Everything is like in a fairy tale. But immediately after birth, my mother and I were exiled outside the Empire, denied the privileges of aristocrats and forbidden to mention kinship. For my mother gave birth to the shame of the family. A girl with dark hair and blue eyes appeared in a family of gray-eyed blonds. True, after a while they became silver, as it should be, but no one except my mother knew this, since we had already left the inhospitable family nest.