Summary

Annika lives as a servant at a grand house in Vienna, a glittering city famous for its great emporor and the exquisite whit horses of the Imperial Riding School. Her life there would be perfect but for the mystery of her real mother. For, as a newborn baby, Annika was found in a church and no one knows where she came from. But every day her mind swirls with dreams of a beautiful mother finally arriving to claim her.