Lyra married into wealth as a gardener's daughter and thought she had escaped her old life, until she caught her husband cheating with her stepmother. When her father walked in on them, he died in the chaos, and her husband showed no remorse, certain the family fortune was already his.
Instead of begging, Lyra goes after the person who actually holds the power: Darius, her father-in-law, a traditionalist who never approved of her. She turns a setup at a banquet into a night with him, then plays the innocent to work his guilt. Piece by piece she takes apart her husband's claim to the inheritance, punishing her stepmother along the way, and discovers that the man she used may not let her walk away.
