​Silent Martyrdom

​"She was not born to find happiness. She was fashioned to hold sorrow."

​To the Imperial Court, Princess Ophelia is a pristine symbol of royal duty. But beneath the suffocating grandeur of the palace walls lies a soul hollowed out by survival guilt and an unrelenting, quiet despair. She is a living martyr, trapped in a cage of high-stakes court politics, forced to mourn the ghost of the only boy she ever loved-Asher-who vanished into the dark shadows of the forest years ago, breaking her world into irreparable pieces.

​Safe within her isolation, Ophelia believes she has felt the sharpest sting of grief. But the machinations of the empire are entirely opaque, and a dangerous new game is unfolding around her.

​For the dead do not always stay buried. And sometimes, the boy you wept for returns as the very monster you were taught to fear.
​A sweeping, dark historical drama written with classical Gothic elegance. Step into a world of lethal palace intrigue, bitter ironies, and a tragic romance inspired by the timeless weight of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.