Summary
Exiled to the frigid mountains for her mother’s crime, Valerie Bellov endures a harsh, isolated existence. She unexpectedly inherits the chilling powers of a legendary monster that once haunted the empire. Choosing death on her nineteenth birthday, she instead awakens as her nine-year-old self, gifted with a second chance. Now determined to alter her tragic fate, she resolves to confront her stepbrother, Emperor Millard, the very man who condemned her to exile.