Synopsis
Eight years after her old husband’s death, the whole Kalaim Empire still believes Adele poisoned him.
The dowager marchioness of House Oswald has been stripped of nearly everything. She lives quietly with her one loyal maid, bakes desserts no one wants, and walks into the emperor’s birthday ball in a black dress dyed one too many times, because there is no reputation left to lose.
Then Count Weiss comes home from the war. Christine Weiss is the empire’s newest hero, the cold commander of the White Ghost Knights, the man the emperor means to give to his daughter. He is also the boy Adele abandoned long ago.
He remembers her. And he no longer smiles the way he used to.
As rumors of a silver wolf stalking the imperial palace spread through Greenhill, Adele finds herself bound to the one man she cannot afford to want, and to a secret that wakes when the night falls.
