A Bridal Crown, a Bloodstained Past

Clara Langley, the last daughter of a loyal military family, is promised to General Edmund Ashford by royal decree. But on their wedding night, Edmund demands she become his concubine. Clara refuses and seeks to end the marriage—only to uncover a decade-old conspiracy proving the Langley Army was betrayed, not defeated. As bloodstained clues emerge, someone long thought lost is waiting in Blackstone Valley.