"In my first life, I was a puppet. In my second, I was poisoned. This time… I will survive."
Discarded by her own bloodline, Princess Letizia di Ravello is exiled to the frozen North, where unwanted nobles are sent to disappear.
Her executioner is not a blade, but the man she is forced to marry.
Duke Callisto van Dristan, the cursed lord of the North, a rumored monster with a frostbound beast lurking beneath his skin.
Letizia arrives prepared for cruelty, her heart guarded after lifetimes of betrayal.
But the North is not the grave she expected.
Instead of a prison, she finds a chaotic estate of misfits who fight, laugh, and survive together.
Instead of an executioner, she finds a man who keeps his distance as if she is something fragile, and looks at her with a quiet, devastating grief.
Every time she meets his gaze, one question lingers.
Why does the most terrifying man in the kingdom look at her like he has already lost her?
“I will not force her to trust me,” Callisto swore to the frozen winds.
“But I will burn the Ravello Empire to the ground before I let them touch her again.”
She was sent to the North to die.
This time, she will survive, become something far more dangerous, and take back everything they stole from her.