Aria was born into nobility… and born blind. Her father's betrayal cost him his life, and with his fall, Aria’s world crumbled. Stripped of her title and tossed into slavery, she became nothing more than a forgotten shadow in the emperor’s palace — mocked, beaten, and punished for a crime she never understood.Powerless in a world ruled by power, her only truth was pain… Until the whispers began.Now, something ancient stirs within her — something that sees beyond sight, that remembers a forgotten lineage... and hungers for vengeance.But Emperor Lucas, feared and worshipped, doesn’t take kindly to rebellion. Especially not from the girl he once crushed under his boot.Will Aria rise from the ashes of her suffering — or be destroyed before she learns what truly sleeps inside her?