Description

Aria wakes to find herself in a novel she once read—as the very character destined to die on her wedding night at the hands of Fenrir, the empire's notoriously cruel emperor. Scorned throughout her life as the unwanted daughter with black hair, she's spent years shutting away her emotions behind a doll-like mask. But facing the sword pointed at her heart, Aria refuses to accept a tragic end. She chooses instead to step forward with quiet resolve, and her unexpected courage begins to crack the frozen walls around Fenrir's heart. As the substitute bride slowly draws out the lonely emperor's capacity to feel, a genuine connection forms between two people who were never supposed to be loved.