Branded an outcast after a jealous classmate trapped her inside a forbidden sanctuary during a lunar eclipse, Bryndis survives an encounter with a chained infernal ruler and escapes into the night. Shamed and expelled once her pregnancy shows, she spends six grueling years in poverty concealing the demonic horns sprouting on her young son.
Desperate to finance the boy's life-saving operation, Bryndis accepts menial cleaning shifts inside a sprawling estate, unaware the enigmatic billionaire owner is the sovereign who has tracked her across realms. As rival underworld factions close in to slaughter her child, she must navigate this ruler's suffocating obsession to shield her son from claiming a deadly throne.
