The ashes of winter

At nineteen, Evelyn is a gifted healer raised in the ashes of war. Discovered as a child prodigy on the battlefield, she now serves quietly at the orphanage where she was once abandoned. Though common-born, her skills rival those of the realm's most learned medics.

When Duke Tristan Thorne, a decorated soldier and hardened nobleman, seeks a cure for his mother's mysterious illness, none of the kingdom's elite healers can help. Desperate, he turns to whispers of a miracle-working orphan girl.

Tristan offers Evelyn a position in his duchy-not out of kindness, but duty. But what begins as a reluctant partnership erupts into a storm of passion, resentment, and secrets. With his noble fiancée, Lady Seraphine, caught in the crossfire-kind, loyal, and undeserving of betrayal-the lines between desire and duty blur dangerously.

In a household riddled with secrets, status, and longing, three hearts will break, burn, or bind forever.