On the day of her wedding, Emma Ashford, the true heiress of the Ashford family, was publicly framed as a viper by her adoptive sister Vivienne, who had spent years plotting against her. Her fiancé Julian Voss dragged her into Nocturne, a nightclub that served as a front for a coercion ring. Two months later, her eyes were hollowed, her spirit utterly broken. The only one who never stopped fighting for her was Ethan Cole, the live-in doctor of the Ashford family, the boy she had once pulled from the water when he was on the verge of drowning, and a man who had been hiding his true identity for many years.
