​"I was just a replacement, a shadow meant to heal the Sterling family’s grief. When their real heiress returned, my fiancé abandoned me, and my family discarded me like trash. In the pouring rain, a black umbrella shielded me from the world. Alaric Knight, the most powerful man in the capital, looked at me with eyes as cold as frost. 'Get in,' he commanded. I thought he was my savior, but I didn't know that I had just walked into the arms of a beautiful predator."