She was born the true daughter of a powerful Duke, but stolen at birth and raised in obscurity.
When five-year-old Elira Veylan was finally brought back to her family, she expected love.
Instead, she found whispers, cold smiles, and an adopted sister so sweetly poisonous that even her own brothers turned away.
For years, Elira tried to belong. She healed their wounds in secret, swallowed their barbed words, and hoped kindness would earn her a place.
Until the day her sister falsely accused her of poisoning her-and the family she bled for cast her into darkness.
Scarred, unbending, and done with begging for love, Elira rose from the ashes of betrayal. She would never bow again... not even when the most powerful man in the kingdom set his eyes on her.
King Caelen Draven was a legend-cold, ruthless, untouchable. But once, in a fleeting moment, a girl with healing hands saved his life. He's searched for her ever since.
When Elira is framed for murder and dragged before his throne, Caelen finally finds the woman who once held his life in her delicate hands. And he won't let her go again.
To save her, he makes a shocking decree: "She will be my wife."
But Elira refuses to be another pawn in a man's game. She'll fight him at every turn, even as her heart betrays her.
Yet the King is possessive. Obsessed. And he has every intention of breaking down her walls, no matter how high she's built them.
In a court of masks and daggers, where love is a weapon and betrayal is a game, can a fallen heiress and a jaded King heal each other-or will the past destroy them both?
• Enemies to lovers 💔❤️
• Age gap romance 👑
• Possessive, jealous King who says "my wife"
• Fiercely independent FMC who won't bend
• Family betrayal, scheming villainess sister
• Forced marriage → real love
• Secret miracle healer heroine
• Court politics, revenge, redemption
• Slow-burn tension with both soft & spicy moments
Aerideth of the family of Ailure was a quiet girl living a quiet life. Her everyday activities were that of any other plain-folk-mundane.
She was just a simple commoner.
Or so she had thought.
When vampire Prince Vesper pulled into the town of Zelar, the ribbon on her wrist woke from its slumber.
It rippled and tugged in his presence-burned with truths long buried beneath spells.
They thought he had forgotten her.
She thought she was no one.
Bound by their souls through love's relentless obsession and need, they must now fight to overcome fate.
Will they win this cycle or will history continue to repeat itself?