"I will never forget you...in this life and the next."
These were the words Lai Shuilan's lover told her before she passed away.
Had she been so naive to trust him?
In this world, reincarnation is common and expected, but it will only happen if your life has faded from living memory.
Her Immortal Lover has swore upon the stars that he would never forget her, as that was her final wish.
However, instead of remaining in the Death Woods' infamous Waiting Mist, she was almost instantly pulled into the The Life Keeper's Heavenly Palace - the Kingdom in the center of the Incarnation Circle.
After just several hours in the Incarnation Circle, The God Of Creation pulled her into the Reincarnation Cycle, therefore sealing her suspicions that her lover had truly forgotten her.
Reincarnating into the daughter of the Infamous Empress Of The Dead Sea, Lu Weilan, she lived with her memories miraculously intact, anger and hurt sealing them against the taxing activities of the Reincarnation Cycle.
Soon after her mother died, she escaped into the Menghuan Hu (Lake Of Dreams) as her present home, The Dead Sea, was starting to be drained away for it's salt.
It was here she met Jie Chengying, a high class scholar in the City of Weilan Shanmai, where the dead sea was located, and thus she began her quest to find her long lost lover - along with her newly found companions.
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.