The Scarlet Oath
By @Malwina Chowańska
In the opulent yet suffocating confines of late 18th-century aristocracy, Elara finds herself irrevocably bound to Lord Beaumont, a man whose icy demeanor and exacting standards have turned her marital home into a gilded cage. Every forgotten meal or misplaced embroidery needle is met with a chilling gaze and a night spent in his chamber, not for affection, but as a cruel reminder of her subservience. Elara, a woman whose spirit yearns for freedom, is constantly ensnared by terror, her existence a fragile tightrope walk over her husband's volatile temper. Her desperate struggle for agency against a husband who sees her as property, not a partner, defines her harrowing daily life. Can a heart starved of warmth find the courage to shatter the chains of betrayal and tyranny before it withers completely?
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