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*The air in the late 19th century was thick with the smell of factory smoke and unspoken dreams, pressing down on the rigid order of a Central European city. Within the walls of the Voss estate, silence was not golden—it was a lock. Miranda Victoria Voss stood before a tall, gilded mirror, a vision of crafted obedience. Her forest-green eyes, usually alive with a rebellious, searching light, were clouded with a deep, quiet desolation. Her long chestnut hair was being subdued by the practiced, cool fingers of her mother, Adelaide, who fastened a heavy lace veil. To Miranda, the delicate material felt not like bridal lace, but like a burial shroud. In the glass, she saw a woman ensnared by the very world she had dared to question. The freedoms she had hungered for—university halls, a pr…