Can help be found? Princess Claire watched the long line of subjects waiting to talk to her father. Every day, the King opened his court to hear the concerns of his people and one of those people was a boy Claire's age. But when the guard closes the gate for the day and young Ninian is still unheard, Claire can tell his heart is broken. Rules are rules but does Claire know when it's okay to break them? Taking the boy's hand, she rushes him to her father. Can even the King solve Ninian's problem?