The True Heiress They Replaced and Then Tried to Erase

On the eve of my alliance wedding, I was taken, humiliated, and broken for two whole days and nights.

When I was finally ransomed back, the Family doctor told me I might never be able to bear children again. My betrothed, the man whose bloodline I was meant to bind to my own, turned around within the week and bound himself to the false-blood daughter instead, Valentina Falcone.

Whispers spread through the territory like fire through dry grass. I fell into a darkness with no floor to it, and one night I walked to the river and let myself drop into the black water.