60 epsThe Stand-in Sister's Revenge
While her sister's killer toasted his company's quarterly profits, she rehearsed the smile that would put her inside his penthouse.
While the emperor bathed in the perfumes she blended to soothe his shattered mind, the hostage bride was measuring the exact dose that would kill him.
Violet Winchester is a princess of a fallen kingdom whose older sister Irene was tortured to death inside the Valden Empire's Thorn Palace. To reach the men who ordered it, Violet volunteers as a political hostage bride for Emperor Edmund Flint, the violent ruler everyone else fears.
She plays the gentle, naive girl while quietly mastering perfumes and herbs. Edmund, scarred by a childhood in chains, can only sleep near her scents, and his obsession grows. Behind his back she works the court, stripping away the noblewomen and officials who helped kill Irene, one by one. By the time the emperor understands that every tender moment was staged, the poison is already in him and the last name on her list is his.
60 epsWhile her sister's killer toasted his company's quarterly profits, she rehearsed the smile that would put her inside his penthouse.
72 epsEvery wish he made to save himself landed twice as hard on the man who had already buried him once.
63 epsWhile her husband toasted his campaign beside his mistress, the mob matriarch he betrayed filed her own papers to run against him.
57 epsWhile the pure-blood heir knelt in the mud of the full-moon ceremony, her own deputy tore the blood pact in half and named a hybrid as his chosen.
63 epsAbandoned as a cursed child by the mafia family that should have raised her, the true heiress returned at eighteen walking in daylight no vampire could survive.
70 epsWaking inside the body of a disgraced provincial noblewoman three centuries after her royal assassination, the founding empress casually poured out the poisoned tea.
61 epsWhile the queen bled on distant battlefields to keep her empire safe, her husband warmed his mistress's bed and let her children torment the queen's own daughter.
63 epsWhile she scrubbed in to save a stranger's child, her husband crushed the surgeon's hands that had saved thousands.
60 epsWhile the attacker's mother tossed a black card in her face, the housewife recognized it as the secondary card she had given her own husband.
64 epsWhile the company called her father's fall a guilty suicide, his daughter walked through the same lobby doors as a junior assistant with poison in her bag.
35 epsWhile her husband signed the papers to have her committed, his uncle was already reading the file that would bury him.
59 epsWhile her noble husband burned through ninety-four edelweiss petals betraying her, the last six sat untouched in a locked drawer he never knew existed.