Summary
After a tragic life confined by the cruel count who adopted her, Hailynn awakens as her eight-year-old self, moments before being taken to his estate. Desperate to escape her grim fate, she flees the carriage and curses the heavens. On the road, she encounters Duke Kalisto, a man known for his piety and celibacy. To her shock, he claims she is his long-lost daughter—the first born to his ducal house in a millennium. But the duke denies fathering any child, leaving Hailynn to wonder about the mysterious circumstances of her birth. Amid political intrigue between empire and church, an unlikely bond forms between the skeptical duke and the girl who might be his heir.