Summary
From the depths of a brothel where she was enslaved since childhood, Gris Benedict, the lost princess of Grandia, clawed her way to a fragile freedom. Her survival came with a chilling price: assume the identity of the Duke of Byrenhag’s ‘fake sister.’ Living under the opulent, yet suffocating, roof of House Byrenhag, Gris meticulously maintains her charade, knowing one wrong step could send her back to the abyss. But her ‘brother,’ Lord Byrenhag, begins to shower her with increasingly lavish gifts, his attention shifting from familial to dangerously possessive. As his desires escalate, threatening to consume her entirely, Gris foresees a catastrophic end to their twisted relationship. Will she escape his gilded cage, or will her carefully constructed world crumble around her? Read chapter 1 to uncover the truth behind the fake sister.