The Tower

Nyrelle D'Arvayne died alone in the depths of the Tower.. betrayed by the man she loved, broken by a fate she never chose.

Reborn with her memories intact, she awakens on the morning a week before her sixteenth birthday, the very day she is meant to be announced as the future Empress, betrothed once again to Prince Lucien Valethorne.

This time, Nyrelle refuses.

Haunted by a future where love turned into cruelty and mercy died behind stone walls, she makes a vow: she will never be bound to Lucien again. She asks her father, Duke D'Arvayne, to cancel the betrothal and declares she will marry only for love or not at all. If forced back into that fate, she would rather die.

The duke, shaken by her resolve, grants her freedom.

Lucien, now eighteen and still crown prince, is left confused and wounded. He remembers the bond they once shared, the same hearts, the same promises, and cannot understand why Nyrelle now avoids him as if he were poison. Despite her distance, he finds himself drawn to her again, determined to reclaim what was lost.

But Nyrelle knows what awaits at the end of that path.

As the empire moves toward an inevitable storm of politics, power, and betrayal, Nyrelle must rewrite her destiny - without love, without mercy, and without repeating the tragedy that once destroyed her.

Because this time, she will not die in that tower.