"When her brief, disastrous marriage to a fortune hunter ends in scandal, Baroness Sabina von Ziegler's vengeful adoptive father imprisons her in a cloister. Nine years later, however, following the teachings of the reformer Martin Luther, she arranges a daring escape ... [only to end up slowly starving to death in a dungeon for refusing her betrothal to] a widowed commoner, a tradition-bound printer from the rising middle class with a secret that...