When the Whitmore family fell to treason charges, Lady Elara lost everything—her title, her fortune, and her family. Her mother was dragged into flames, her father chained and taken to the gallows, and Elara herself only escaped the brothel by smashing her own forehead against a stone wall. The scar that saved her virginity now marked her as damaged goods. A year of running and starving later, she stands in a muddy border slave market—the cheapest wretch on the block.
Just before she is shipped