Summary
Once the empire’s most beloved jewel, Princess Rowena of Bennett saw her life shattered at fifteen. Falsely condemned for her half-sister’s death, she was cast from grace into years of hardship. Five years later, a summons arrives from Finlay, the new Emperor of Osborne—a man who seized power through patricide. Though they were once as close as siblings, their painful past has built walls between them. Rowena guards her wounded heart, while Finlay is haunted by the blood on his hands. Now, the stalled gears of their shared fate are beginning, at last, to turn once more.