Summary
After her father’s death, Claudia is brutally stripped of everything – her family, her home, her very identity – by her treacherous stepsister, then sold into a life of squalor. Just as despair threatens to consume her, a chilling proposition emerges from the shadows: an alliance with the infamous ‘Crimson Devil,’ a ruthless marquess feared across the land. To exact her vengeance and reclaim her stolen future, Claudia sheds her past, reborn as Luce, the contract wife of a man as dangerous as he is powerful. Her new identity is a weapon, her marriage a pact with the devil. But in a world rife with courtly intrigue and perilous secrets, will her thirst for revenge consume her, or will she rise to shake the very foundations of the nation? Begin her story. Read Chapter 1 now!