Trained to be indispensable. Choosing to be dangerous instead.

Hailesa Grosvenor spent twelve years becoming the perfect future Marchioness for a man who never deserved her. When the engagement dissolves three days before graduation, she does the one thing no one ever arranged for her: she leaves.

A holiday in neighboring Alyura should have been simple — bad coffee, glass markets, a country she’d never bothered to see. Instead, a stranger’s rescue pulls her into a Grand Duke’s dangerous restraint, a captain’s reckless devotion, and a conspiracy someone is willing to burn a city to protect. Armed with a sword she was never supposed to need and a merciless eye for the kind of paperwork most people overlook, Hailesa may be the only person standing between a rogue army and a war sixty years in the making.

She wanted a life that was finally her own. She’s about to find out how much that life is worth fighting for.