Alicia remembers the bitter sting of execution, having surrendered her ancestral fortune and blood relics to Hunter, only for him to slaughter her lineage. Awaking on the dawn of the ancestral mate-choosing banquet, Alicia vows never to walk the path of blind devotion again.
Rejecting her deceitful suitor before the assembled coven, Alicia brazenly extends her pledge to Roderick, a feared recluse rumored to command primeval dark arts. As Roderick's genuine devotion unlocks Alicia's latent sorcery, the pair unravels a centuries-old conspiracy, systematically bankrupting and humiliating the traitors who ruined her past life.
