Stripped of her children, tortured by her sister-in-law, and confined behind asylum walls, Catherine survives only by clinging to the promise of freedom at the end of a cruel bargain. But one night, she discovers that Andel, the man she devoted half her life to, destroyed her family, poisoned her mind, and stole her future. At last, wounded but unbroken, she escapes the Greck estate and leaves seven years of captivity behind.