Synopsis
Her colleagues turned their backs. Her lover abandoned her. She was dragged toward the scaffold for crimes she didn't commit. Emperor Herhan pulled her from death's edge. She repaid his kindness with everything she had—her devotion, her sacrifice, her will. It should have ended there. But he wanted to upend her entirely. "I can't make out your words," she whispered. "The heavens kept stealing the things I needed most." Then came the revelation: Herhan bore a curse, and she— "Riela Blinite, by decree of the court, is recognized as a saintess of the highest order, bearer of salvation." Only she…
