Pavlicia’s life changed on the very day she crossed the threshold of the Academy of the Cursed. The magic that woke up in a ragged street girl gave her a future that other cast-off people can only dream of—but is everything really that simple?
Proofs suddenly appear to refute a forged accusation of murder. The ruler of these lands unexpectedly declares the girl his heiress. And the fake fiancé—who only recently refused to lay claim to anything—now insists on a prompt wedding. How to escape this web? And how to find answers to the most important questions: who were her parents, and why, eighteen years ago, was she left in the House of the Abandoned?