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Skinner stopped him. “As of last week, William, you are 31, well of marrying age. As of five hours ago, you need an heir, and an alliance that is not easily dissolved. It is the easiest and fastest way to attach your power to somewhere outside of the Republic and gain a better footing in the States General. More than that, you will be wanting someone other than myself to confide in, someone you can trust. I know you may not want a wife, but you need one, and the Republic needs you. You are a good man. I refuse to lose you to someone else’s devices for my want of trying.”
William, Prince of Orange, is pushed abruptly into power and the realization that he needs a wife, and an heir, and, well, some company. At a crisis in both of their reigns, a mutually beneficial marriage is arranged between him and Dana Katherine, the young Queen of Sweden. Cool civility hesitantly warms as the two come to know one another, but not is all as it seems, and their new positions, even fortified, are more precarious than as first appears.