Amber was a normal aristocrat girl from Italy in the 16 century. She had lost her mother in childbirth with her younger brother and their father raised them on his own until he remarried three years later. Their stepmother loved them as her own children and did every motherly thing for them. She couldn't have children so Amber and Antony were her children.
When Amber was fifthteen, her whole life changed. Her parents and brother were killed while Amber was taken away by ottoman solders. The soldiers took her to their boat and she saw other girls captured like herself. All the guards were escorted onto the boat one at a time and they all grew to know each other during the voyage to the ottoman empire. The girls were separated according to their old social rank. So Amber was with two other aristocratic girls around her age.
Guards:*speaking Turkish, given all the girls food to eat and water to drink*
The girls without social rank were always fighting against the solders and some of the girls had to be killed for being rebellious. Only a few of the peasant girls remained when the boat reached Istanbul.
After two months of being on a boat, everyone was on dry land again. All the girls that were alive were sent to the slave market to be sold off.
Amber, Elizabeta and Sarah were all sold quickly to high bidders. Sarah had been sold to a Pasa while Elizabeta and Amber had been sold to different Sezhade's harems. Amber was sold to be Sezhade Selim's newest concubine and she did not know what happened to her friends.