Sloane Stratton wakes inside a medieval European royal saga as Alaric Lennox’s doomed side consort—born to be used, betrayed, and discarded. In a stone court ruled by crowns, marriage pacts, heirs, and succession, poisoned gifts, scandals, disease, and deadly ambition close in. Armed with knowledge of the story’s traps, Sloane turns every scheme into leverage, outplaying the principal wife, the court, and the crown itself as she rises from disposable consort to Empress Dowager.