Nancy Vale, heir to the Moon Goddess bloodline whose fated husband will become the Lion King, suffers brutal public humiliation when her childhood sweetheart Julian swats her sacred beast heart aside at the Blood Moon Rite to elope with his lover. In bold defiance, she marries the ragged mute beggar who caught it. Three years later, her lowly husband is revealed to be exiled crown prince Edmund. Together they foil Julian’s long-planned treasonous plot, and Nancy rises from a scorned outcast to t
