The long-awaited marriage to Lord Ossi turned into a real tragedy for me. On the wedding day, my husband died under strange circumstances, and I ended up in prison accused of murder using mental magic, which is inevitably punished by execution. “Lady Farinta Ridberg, the black widow who outlived four husbands—her end came in the flames of the stake!”—that’s likely what the vendors of the city newspapers would shout in the morning.
Only the execution never happened. By an ancient custom, a woman sentenced to death can be saved by entering a marriage alliance with her. And so I became the wife of Lord Milo Castanello, one of the richest and most noble people in the city. But will marriage to the Lord be better than an immediate execution, if he is known not for his merits before the Crown, but for the mysterious circumstances that made the young man a triple widower?