Human destinies are like grains of sand in an hourglass. Today you are an ordinary seventeen-year-old schoolgirl, parents’ favorite, almost a wife. Tomorrow your sand-grain-life will fall, your native principality will be conquered, and you’ll turn into a slave—you’ll even lose your name. From now on, Yaley Shartan is no longer a person, but a thing that cannot have thoughts, feelings, or desires. Her only purpose is to please the master. Many accept it, but not Yaley. She desperately fights for freedom, trying to preserve a part of herself—but… time goes on, the grains of sand in the hourglass are running out, and one day everything may change.