Lady Lavinia Revengar is a war mage and war heroine left out of work due to a dangerous injury. Having lost both magic and livelihood at once, she turns to the king for help, but instead of a suitable position, he decides to marry her to another war hero - the commandant of a distant fortress, whose wife died during an enemy assault. And you cannot object to the king that both "young" not only do not know each other, but did not plan to marry at all...