Synopsis
Karina Winters should have inherited the duchy. Instead, her father and brother sold her, used her, and left her to burn once they had taken everything she owned. Then she wakes three years before the fire. This time, Karina plays the frail young lady they expect, all lowered eyes and trembling hands. But behind closed doors, she is settling the family’s hidden debts, turning noblemen against one another, and building the trap that will ruin them all. For that, she needs an accomplice. Someone quiet. Loyal. Invisible. She chooses Ella, the maid who once ran into the flames for her. But Ella remembers too. She remembers the fire, Karina in her arms, and the love she never dared speak. She has come back carrying a witch’s curse in her blood, sworn to protect Karina no matter what it costs. As revenge tightens around them, blood and desire begin to blur. And when the house turns against them, Karina must decide whether she is fighting to reclaim her life—or to escape it with Ella before the fire finds them both again.