Happiness was once a part of Athelia's world-a warmth she felt in her mother's embrace, in the laughter of her brothers, and in the quiet strength of her father. But all of that was stolen from her in a single night. Abducted on their way to the market, Athelia and her mother were dragged into darkness. When Athelia woke up in a cold, dust-filled basement, she discovered a horror beyond her worst nightmares-her mother get killed brutally Then her father found her. But instead of saving her, instead of comforting her, he looked at her with eyes filled with grief and fury. "She's dead. And you're not." From that moment on, Athelia's life became a living nightmare. Damian, once her loving father and her second brother Avyrl, now saw her as the reason for his wife's death. Her brothers-Azrevel, and Andrezy-were caught between their father's anger and their sister's silent suffering. The home that was once filled with warmth became suffocatingly cold. The hands that once held hers with love now pushed her away. The eyes that once looked at her with pride now held only blame. As Athelia growing up, she still struggles to understand why she was left alive while her mother was brutally killed, she realizes that happiness is nothing but a distant memory. And maybe... it's something she was never meant to have.