On my 18th birthday, they came to collect me.Lady Suq raised me to believe the Emperor saved my life. That I owed him everything. Food, shelter, a name.She never told me the debt would be paid with my body.I was taken to the palace in a white gown, untouched and naive, and left in his chambers. The Emperor is everything they warned me about — cold, powerful, obsessed with owning what no one else has touched."I waited 18 years for you," he whispered. "Don't disappoint me."I thought that night would be the end of my innocence.I was wrong. It was only the beginning of his game.He says I belong to him now. That my mother's silver ring can't save me. But there are secrets in this palace — about my parents' death, about why he really chose me, and about what truly happened after the lamp went out that first night.I must find the truth before he takes everything...