In her world, loving a man is not a sin—but it is a crime against the laws established by the Women’s Confederation. Raised on stories from her grandmother about the “old” world—where men and women once formed a harmonious whole—Alesta is at a crossroads: yield to her mother’s authoritative hand, steering her daughter’s fate toward social order and outward well-being, or search for the lost truth. Believe the textbooks that claim that a woman’s Love can only grow from a man a “self-absorbed egoist,” or trust the whispering intuition to the contrary?
In his world there are no women. Not because they don’t exist, but because he prefers not to see them. Born with only half a soul, Baal Regnosciros is sure he’s doomed to loneliness—he isn’t human; he’s a half-demon and therefore “defective.”
When the one who longs to love and the one who doesn’t think he deserves love meet, sparks flare up—sparks that can burn a new pattern into the canvas of fate.