Beautiful plot in wonderfully elaborate world. Worth reading!

In the world in which plays this novel, there are magic - and the magic exerted by bards, by singing. Each bard can sing one or more "Quarters", ie earth, water, fire, air, which act more or less in the corresponding seasons.
Annice is the sister of the king, who has gone against his will to the guild of bards and did not marry the man chosen by him. Now both - a stubborn than the other - not been in contact for years. Worse, your brother imposed a spell over them, that they should never have a child under threat of death.
The chaos takes its course, as Annice is suspected, a nobleman who is to be hanged as a traitor to have helped escape - who is the father of her child at the same time ...