Summary
After losing her parents in childhood, Karenzia was adopted by the Count Giese family, only to suffer years of neglect and cruelty. She is eventually forced to marry an elderly duke in place of her stepsister. Upon arriving at his isolated mountain estate, she finds not an old man, but a sorrowful youth with a dagger buried in his stomach. He reveals he is the immortal duke, trapped by a curse, and that only Karenzia can see—and remove—the blade. But pulling it out will kill him. Desperate to safeguard the first home she has ever known, she suggests a marriage of convenience, unaware of the complications ahead.