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Marcella Valemont was a villainess wrapped in silk and thorns.

The alluring, selfish daughter of the High Priest, she was forced into a cold marriage with the Black-bellied Duke Berith Montclair. She longed for power and would stop at nothing to claim the crown, even if it meant seducing the incorruptible Crown Prince Lucian and clawing her way to the throne into becoming the Queen.

Until it all burned.

Her ruthless schemes led to betrayal, rebellion, and ruin-- an empire on its knees, a virtuous king destroyed, and a rebellion led by the man she discarded. Desperate and full of regret, she barters her life with the Duke to save Lucian. 

In an interesting turn of events, Marcella gets to go back in time to fix her wrongs, save the man who was ruined because of her and hopefully stop the bloodthirsty rebel Duke Berith. 

She finds herself reborn as her 18-year-old self with a chance for a do-over and vows to do better this time.

But the past does not forget. Nor does the devil in her husband’s skin.

Secrets long buried begin to surface, and Marcella discovers that her former husband is far more than he seems—a man cloaked in darkness, harboring a purpose that threatens everything she holds dear. 

They say second chances come with thorns and to fix the past, she must trust the devil who destroyed it.

The Devil's Duchess

Twilight never rose in the Black Vale.

The sky was a bruise-colored dome stretched too tightly over dead earth. Berith's horse reared, its flanks quivering, nostrils flaring at the scent of something it couldn't name. The skeletal trees bent like sinners' mid-confession.

The deeper Berith went, the more the devil inside his chest clawed, tasting the air like a hound nearing blood.

He dismounted from his horse before it could stop. His boots hit the rotted soil, stumbling forward as his eyes caught the glimpse of her. His cursed blood had already begun to burn with the memory of her name.

Rescue her