When you dare to commit to your deepest desires, your heart grows to accommodate the task at hand, no matter how daunting." --the archangel michael for joan of arc, her challenge was surviving in a man's world of the fif...When you dare to commit to your deepest desires, your heart grows to accommodate the task at hand, no matter how daunting." --the archangel michael for joan of arc, her challenge was surviving in a man's world of the fifteenth century. For jane archer, a twenty-first-century west point cadet, not much has changed in nearly six centuries.