A story of a young girl who loves actions and stories of empires and dynasties. Her father was a general for the Japanese Government so she knew a lot about modern warfare tactics. She has even helped her father with the government. Unknowingly, doing too much caused the death of her entire family. Dying the most painful a young girl could think off.
Then suddenly, she was in a 7 years old girl's body. Waking up in a bed with a woman that looked exactly like her mother. It felt like a memory of when she was younger, except instead of being in Korea, she was, in a old home. Soon finding out that she was in a completely different world.
Everything seemed fine, Even though the woman wasn't her original mother, she acted and looked like her mother. Her life was peaceful until a sudden attack on her and her mother's home. Hiding under the floor boards, she had to watch her mother get killed and through the process, she found out she was actually a concubine that his majesty let free, yet a jealous empress caused her death.
After the tragedy, she was filled with rage, only having her mother's necklace to keep. She began to travel and continue her learning on fighting and other military related information, because she knew, to get revenge for her mother as a "boy," she'd have to get power, right to for succession on the throne, and kill the one that made her happiness disperse.
Just when she's decided to leave the Town, Lady Cressida Belverst is forced to marry Lord Calan Haverston, the man who coincidentally knows a way out. Agreeing to marry for all the wrong reasons, can Cressida and Calan find out where their hearts truly belong?
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It is impossible to leave the Town, but one woman is determined to escape with the help of her betrothed.
Lady Cressida Belverst has always been judged as a walking scandal. Oh, how she tries (on some rare occasions) to be proper! When her parents arrange for her to marry a rich lord, Cressida has had enough. She has to leave the Town because she will not be forced to live with a man she doesn't love. But what happens if the very man she's betrothed to is the only one who can help her get out?
Calan Haverston, the Lord of Easton, takes the risk and helps his betrothed by using his knowledge of the Town's secrets because he is as willing as she to stay free of marriage for reasons completely different. He has dark secrets he cannot share with her, and his life is not one he can likewise open to anyone. But what happens when she leaves after awakening desires he thought he has under control? And what happens when he finds himself longing for her?
Cressida goes to a completely different place, one she has only heard in stories and read in books, with hopes of finding what her heart has always longed for. But love, mystery and secrets will chase her and it will only be a matter of time before she realizes what her heart truly desires.
*This story is a standalone title in the Haverston Family series.