Summary
For 25 years, Catherine Caliburn, a duke’s daughter, has been a prisoner within her own castle walls. Her only hope for freedom? A desperate plan to break off her engagement. But then, Archduke Deimos Pendragon, the Emperor’s formidable brother, steps into her life with an offer as irresistible as it is terrifying: ‘Marry me, and the world is yours. Cross the seas, fly through the skies—anywhere you wish.’
A diamond ring slips onto her finger, a glittering promise of liberation that quickly turns into a gilded cage. Deimos’s ‘infatuation’ is a predator’s gaze, his proposal an undeniable command. He vows to make her the most cherished woman under the sky, yet his alluring smile hides a chilling decree: ‘Never, ever think of running away from me. For you are destined to die by my hand.’
Trapped between a life of suffocating imprisonment and a marriage to a man who promises both adoration and death, Catherine must navigate a dangerous game where love and obsession blur. Read chapter 1 to uncover the dark secrets of their union and Catherine’s desperate fight for survival.