Two very different worlds collide when Prince Thomas receives a proposal from the King of Cromwell. Thomas's family is kind, loving, and generous with the family servants, calling some of them their best friends and family. Catalina, on the other hand, is basically a cast-off, until she's not. She's the illegitimate child of King Bertram and his 'Royal Mistress'. When the family needs Catalina to garner allies as security against potential future wars, she's treated like royalty. When the castle gates are closed, she's Lady's Maid to the Queen. Catalina is caught in a world of manners, propriety, and lofty expectations, yet deeply desires freedom and rest from false pretense. Meanwhile, Catalina's birth mother is in a state of quickly declining health. Catalina and her brother, Nicolas, have urgently sought to get her the best healing treatments that ancient medicine has to offer, but to no avail as of yet. Will Catalina be able to find a healer for her mother before it's too late? Will Thomas see past the profound facade of Princess Cataline and discern her heart? Will he get a glimpse of her kind and generous spirit? Or is it already too late for... The Prince & His Captive Beauty?