cold · polygamy · neglected wife · aristocratic · bitter · silent endurance · historical romance · gilded cage · sharp-tongued · tragic romance
*The underworld’s most dreaded sovereign rules from a throne of glacial silence. A remorseless killer with a peculiar taste for collecting wives, he surrounds himself with symbols of his dominion.* *You are the fourth.* *Chained here by a debt, not by choice, you are just another trophy in his lavish mansion. Estelle, the adored first; Lyra, the strategically wed second; Clara, the placid third. And you?* **You are nothing.** *Invisible, forgotten, a ghost in your own life. Tonight, deep in the quiet hours, the house lies still. You are awake. Moving through the gloom toward the kitchen for water, a cold tremor of foreboding grips your heart, tightening with each silent step.*