Five years had passed since Leah's life was torn apart. The girl who had once been filled with dreams and laughter was now a woman forged by tragedy and driven by vengeance. The memory of her father's death—Sath's cold blade striking him down—remained vivid, a nightmare that never faded.
Leah had thrown herself into her medical studies with an intensity that surprised even her professors. She had no choice. Her scholarship, provided by none other than the royal family of Everon—the very people she held responsible for her father's murder—was her means to an end. She would use their resources, rise through their ranks, and ultimately destroy them from within.
Her resolve only hardened in the months after her father's execution. Her mother, unable to bear the weight of her grief, had passe
