"You, Elisa Adkins, have no past. Your old self was killed today. From now on, I'm your only living relative, and I'm responsible for you." When Elisa arrives at Scarlet Abbey, a gothic tower, to live with her aunt, she doesn't know what to expect. She is forced to forget her identity, her father, her past. She isn't allowed to go further than the massive golden gate. The Dutchess won't let her ask questions. But what happens when she must marry a strange man she barely knows, against her will? Can she survive among the aristocrats? Things turned out to be more complicated than she believed. And now her life is in danger. What really happened to her mother 17 years ago? Will Elisa write her own destiny? Or will she let others to decide for her?

- "You are different from anyone else I've met. You are a walking dead body, you are lacking empathy. But I can see it through your eyes. You are an utterly logical person in an emotional world, and you are desperately looking for a way out of it." he said, a faint smile on his lips, as he rested his head on the palm of his hand. - Victoria Afton is a young criminology student with a strong sense of justice. She can't deal with her feelings and emotions, but she is put to the limit when the person closest to her is harmed. Will she do what she must to actually help her friend, or will she go over the line for her own selfish reasons? What will she do when her hands are covered in someone else's blood, and she is one of the criminals she has been so eagerly studying about?