Persona. Tome I: Half of my heart

In a world of masks and propriety, a young woman fights to exist, trapped in a society shaped by men.
Where women are mere decorations and men the masters of the game, an heiress refuses to stay silent.
In the heart of the prestigious Rosenstrauss household, she suffocates beneath dresses laced too tight, smiles polished too smooth, and alliances imposed upon her. She was taught to please, never to think.
Yet she dreams of something else of justice, of freedom... and perhaps of love.

When an officer of the Scout Regiment, Erwin Smith, steps across the threshold of her gilded world, the façade begins to crack.
Between them is born a fragile alliance, a subtle game of double meanings, a possibility the spark of her schemes...

But who said noble young ladies couldn't break their chains on their own?

Immersed in her quest for emancipation and power, she believed she controlled everything: her movements, her silences, her allies.
But all it took was one glance.
A glance that would break her destiny a bandit, an outlaw who should never have crossed the path of a life already mapped out.
He, who would shake her certainties, fracture her defenses, and make the carefully built edifice of her plans tremble.

Wasn't she supposed to toy with him at first?

It was neither a promise nor a threat. Just a look piercing, unreadable, untamed.
And suddenly, she was no longer sure of anything. Not of him. Not of herself.
For in his eyes, even hell seemed poetic irresistible.
From her lips, she could only whisper the name of the man who would become her hero... and her downfall.

If I offer you half of my heart, will you accept it?

In this cruel world, she had been nothing but a puppet and that could no longer continue...