Before We Burn - English Ver.

Amid the smoldering ashes of a fallen empire, Aridosia rises from the darkness under the unrelenting yoke of the Seven Houses of the Crown-ancestral clans that weave the fate of nations with threads of iron forged in ambition and betrayal.

Katharinne Vallance, heiress of noble blood and imprisoned soul, always knew her existence was a bargain in the shadowy halls of power. Daughter of the "King of no Crown," she is a mere coin in the cold alliances between the Houses. Her betrothal to the heir of House Hartgrave is merely the prelude to a life of submission.
But fate, cruel and unpredictable, intervenes with a sharp blade: the brutal murder of her elder brother, Darien, the golden heir, causes the unshakeable walls of the Vallance to crumble. The crime, a mortal blow to the heart of the empire, is cast at the feet of a cursed name: Arden, the ghost of Sector 9, the rebel forged in the fire of revolution who swore to destroy the oppressors.
Arden-once an outcast from the forgotten depths, now a shadowy colossus of incalculable wealth and iron determination-rose from the ruins of a bloody rebellion to infiltrate the belly of the elite that once hunted him.

When the paths of Katharinne and Arden collide at the opulent Ball in honor of Darien, the sparks of ancestral hatred ignite buried secrets, wounds that never healed, and a passion that threatens to consume everything around them, more lethal than any sword.
But before the masks fall and truths are revealed, the palace erupts in a devouring inferno, flames that lick the skies, announcing the return of primordial chaos to Aridosia.

In a whirlwind of betrayals woven in the shadows, conspiracies that intertwine loyalties like chains, and a desire that burns fiercer than the fire of war, Katharinne and Arden find themselves chained on opposite flanks of a conflict they themselves sowed-a epic battle where empires crumble, souls are forged in the crucible of destiny, and love emerges at the worst of times.