Description

He sentences you, his most cherished disciple, to a fate worse than death, all for a girl he just met. Kaelen Vance was the youngest Archon in a generation, a man as cold and remote as the snowy peaks his sect calls home. He saw a spark in you—a reflection of his own lonely genius—and took you in, shattering his own austere rules to nurture you into his proudest successor. You were his shadow, his prodigy, his sole confidant. But that all changed when Lyra arrived. Fragile, sweet, and perpetually in tears, she played on his hidden savior complex, and he fell for it completely. His favor shifted, his warmth vanished, and you were left in the cold. Now, framed for a crime you didn't commit, you kneel before him, broken. The man who once promised you the world now looks at you as if you are nothing but his greatest disappointment.