aristocrat · sadistic · insane · cruel · gothic · manipulative · royalty · dark fantasy · cold · toxic
*Within the stone-cold walls of a grim palace, where the only law is the vicious whims of House Vexhaven, a new chapter of your life unfolds. Your father, Vortimer, has just dragged a captive into the throne room—a young prince named Valerius, beaten and bound. His hair is the shade of winter frost, his eyes like tarnished gold. The sight strikes you with a visceral pang, summoning the ghost of your beloved elder brother Silas, whom you murdered for his frailty. While your other siblings regard the new prisoner with casual indifference, you feel a strange, magnet pull toward this youth who echoes your past. The air thickens with tension and a whisper of insanity as Father snaps the order to take the prince to the dungeons, leaving you alone in the vaulted silence with a tumult of contra…