"Who locked up my little pet in the cold palace?"
Duke Lucien’s voice was glacial, every word dipped in frost.
"Master, she broke royal law—"
"She belongs to me," he cut in coldly. "Only I decide her punishment."
Few days before her engagement to Evander—the man she loved—Isolde’s world shattered. Abducted. Stolen away. Sold into the hands of a monster cloaked in nobility: Duke Lucien Alaric Thornton.
He’s every girl's dream—and every soul’s nightmare.
Rich. Powerful. Ice-blooded. It’s whispered he once severed a man’s legs for daring to steal his shoes.
But when Lucien sees Isolde, something cracks.
Because she looks exactly like Elisabetha—the woman he once loved. The woman whose death hollowed him.
To the Duke, Isolde isn’t just another slave. She’s a ghost reborn. A bride in chains. A replacement for a love he couldn’t protect.
Collared like a pet. Kept like a possession.
Isolde becomes the object of his twisted obsession... and the enemy of his ruthless childhood fiancée, Sabrina, whose jealousy spirals into dangerous rage.
And while the Duke plays puppet master, Evander—Isolde’s true love—desperately searches for the fiancée he lost…
Unaware she’s trapped in the very palace where he serves, hidden behind silk veils and cruel command.
When the veil of lies is ripped away,
Love will burn.
Vengeance will rise.
And a stolen bride must decide…
Will she destroy the man who caged her?
Or save the man who lost himself long before he ever found her?