A powerful mage, a talented military man, an incredibly rich person—and twelve times, virtually a widower. Lord Oton Grayde’s name was accompanied by frightening stories, and for years the newspapers had been filled with reports of the death of yet another fiancée. And I was destined to become the wife of this terrible man… Or, in other words, the thirteenth fiancée who would never live to see the fateful day of the wedding.