The Decoder

For six years, the Kingdom of Rayard and the Kingdom of Hathage have been in a feud that threatens the start of a war.

Edith Alcoft is the daughter of a prodigy who decodes and encodes messages for the High Commander Ekker and Lord Sykes of Hathage Kingdom. Eight years later, after his death, she lives with her uncle and learns to fend for herself while looking after her uncle and his clinic, and staying under low profile from the Militia. Having been taught by her father the knowledge of cryptography, she is skilled at decoding and encoding messages herself, but to her, the skill was pretty much useless in her daily life.

At the turn of events, she was reunited with her childhood best friend, Avery, who is now a high-ranking officer of the Militia. What she did not see coming was the importance of a secret her father had entrusted to her before his death, in a form of a series of complex codes, which could turn the tide of the war. Only problem, she wasn't familiar with those complex codes and she could not bring herself to decode the message due to a trauma. Would she be able to decode the message before it is too late?

Avery has his own demons to overcome. He is hell-bent on revenge for the injustice done to him eleven years ago, on the night his father, Lord Sykes was murdered. If it hadn't been for Sir Alcoft and his daughter, he would have been dead eleven years ago. Upon meeting his childhood best friend again, he was elated and the feelings he harbored for her reignited. However, when he is later placed on an assignment to crack a certain code that is in Edith's hands, he is torn between his need for revenge and his deepening feelings for Edith. Will he betray her or protect her?