Summary
Lady Deadache’s world shatters when her father’s ambitious political scheme backfires, costing her a fiancé and plunging her noble family into ruin. To avert complete disaster, she’s forced into an arranged marriage with the Emperor’s most favored knight. The humiliation of marrying ‘down’ pales in comparison to the shock of her groom’s identity: Lucius Elliot, the passionate lover she lost six years ago. Once a man of standing, Lucius was stripped of his title, land, and their love after a duke’s machinations exposed him as illegitimate and drove him to the battlefield, leaving Deadache heartbroken and misunderstood. Now, fate has cruelly twisted their paths, reversing their fortunes. As the powerful knight faces the disgraced duke’s daughter, Deadache must confront the man who holds her family’s fate in his hands, wondering if his heart harbors a burning desire for revenge or a flicker of their past affection. Dive into chapter 1 to uncover their tangled destiny!