It’s hard to go against fate when you’re a simple slave girl. It’s even harder to resist the orders of your mistress. But what if your life depends on it? Could Elrion have imagined that, face to face, she would encounter an ancient curse that’s already many years old—and that she’s partly to blame for it…? But what else can she do? How else can she save the unfortunate from such a terrible fate? Who else would love a monster…?