The best student of Marede’s course, Winnie, dreams of becoming the first woman—a royal lawyer—but lack of money pushes her into crime, and then into the power of a bored aristocrat. It seemed Marede managed to break free, but they find her and make her two obscene offers at once. Accept one and earn her dream by becoming the concubine of a vicious lord? Or accept the second—and get revenge on the scoundrel? Or maybe all at once? But should a poor student get involved in the games of great people, where her life is a bargaining chip for someone else’s passion and death?