He was my rival. My first love. My deepest wound. Now fate has thrown them together again — and the fire never died. Ethan and I fell in love while preparing for a scholarship,we hid our romance,survived family’s disapproval,everything was perfect until Ethan’s betrayal.a single situation changed everything. He was my rival. My first love. My deepest wound. Now fate has thrown them together again — and the fire never died.

Elara has died twice—once from fever, once to save her sister. Now she's a prisoner in Raven's Peak, sold to Lord Kaelen Blackwood, a man whispered to have killed his own father. Cold, cruel, and terrifyingly perceptive, he sees through her lies and keeps her close as his servant.But when her fever returns and she collapses, the icy lord does the unexpected: he tends her wounds with gentle hands, returning the locket holding her sister's portrait. "If you die, I'll have to train another one," he says. But his kindness betrays his cold words.In a fortress of shadow and secrets, a dying girl with nothing left to lose discovers her captor may be more broken than she is. But he's determined to unravel every secret she holds—and she's determined to survive.Some cages are built of ice. Some hearts are built of fire. And some captors become the only reason to live.