After her older sisters arranged marriage is a disaster, Francesca is given more flexibility, but runs away and takes a job as a maid when she is engaged to a Duke in the second novel in the series following Bianca. (romance). When her parents agree to the Duke of Terreno Boscosos proposal that he take her as his bride, Francesca flees to the woods and earns her living at a small inn where she meets an unlikely suitor.
