Betrayal by loved ones hurts the most. Trust is a fragile thing, and it’s very easy to break. Much harder is putting it back together afterwards.
I survived betrayal by my mother and my fiancé, mastered the gift that woke within me—the Fire Witch’s power—and chose the path of an investigator, not a pretty doll who is empty inside, even with a rich dowry. I even moved far away from my home town, severing all ties with the past and starting my life anew. And everything would have been fine—if one day a stubborn man hadn’t appeared in it, and unfortunately I had to work with him. Besides that, unexpectedly, the investigation of an unusual death in the mountains grew such a mass of details that there was no time for my own problems with my partner.
And what I definitely hadn’t expected was skeletons in my closet connected to my origins.
In short, my vacation was a success in every sense…