Echoes of the Gilded Cage

In the soot-choked metropolis of New Aethelgard, Lady Seraphina Vance is a gilded bird destined to be sacrificed to the ruthless, iron-fisted Duke Alistair Sterling to settle her family's crushing debts. But Seraphina possesses a dangerous, forbidden gift: she can read the emotional imprints left on physical objects. When she touches her new husband’s wedding gift, she doesn't find cold malice, but a desperate, bleeding memory of a murder that implicates her own family. Caught in a deadly web of courtly intrigue and dangerous secrets, Seraphina must play the submissive wife while secretly investigating the man she is forced to love. Alistair, suspicious of her sudden compliance, begins a battle of wills that blurs the line between captor and savior. In this high-stakes game of political chess, she must decide if the monster in her bed is her greatest enemy, or the only one who can set her free.