She loves her God, her subjects, her country, and her horses, in that order. In her arranged marriage, it does not matter that Etrea, standoffish blue-eyed queen of Etheria, where eye color rather than skin color determines a person's race, does not also love her husband, the High Prince Ymanu. The highest achievement of an Eatherian queen is to bear living sons. So when Etrea's third child is born a girl, her halfhearted fondness for her husband turns to outright hatred. Never mind that Ymanu is overjoyed to have a daughter. Never mind that the princess has inherited his green eyes, which...