Liora suffers unspeakable cruelty when her own aristocratic relatives cut out her enchanted heart and auction the crystalline organ on the illicit fae market. Left empty-chested and fading toward death, she is dragged onto the bidding dais. To the crowd's astonishment, King Mael of the Winter Court claims her, binding them in a thirty-day covenant to retrieve the scattered shards.
Side by side with her stern royal benefactor, Liora tracks down corrupt noble ministers and backstabbing kin who partitioned her soul. Each reclaimed crystal fragment awakens dormant celestial memories, revealing her identity as the true sovereign of the ancient Moon Crown. Now Liora demands total reckoning from the dynasty that tried to discard her.
