Ashton descends the mountains with his daughter, Lily, and finds himself at Elena Thornwood's Sacred Bond Ceremony. When Lily throws a fit demanding a mommy, Ashton steps up to the challenge, defeats the competition, and successfully forms a Sacred Bond with Elena — never expecting this would drag him straight into a deadly conspiracy.
As it turns out, Damian Blackwood, heir to the powerful Blackwood magical family in Northgate, has been forcing Elena into marriage under the guise of a political
