For thirty years, Sophia endured a life stolen by Amelia and forced into Kael’s place as nothing more than a substitute lover. Humiliated and used, she died trapped in the pain of a bond she never wanted. Yet death gives way to rebirth, and Sophia returns to the day of the Bond Trial with one resolve: never again. She turns to Rowan, the gentle scholar whose love was always true, and leaves behind the toxic tie to the two selfish lovers. Free at last, she finds the peaceful life she was denied.
