In a world woven from Greek myth, Ares, the God of War, is saved from the ruins of the Divine War by a woman wearing a laurel bracelet. He mistakes his savior for Leto, his illegitimate daughter, and falls in love with Elara—the true rescuer—while treating her merely as a shield to protect Leto. On their wedding day, Leto threatens suicide rather than marry Morvath, the blind Lord of the Abyss. Heartbroken, Elara offers to swap engagements and marries into the Abyss alone. After the wedding, Ares discovers Leto’s arrogance, her abandonment of him during a carriage crash, and her confession that she falsely claimed the rescue. He realizes he has loved the wrong woman all along—and that his true love was always Elara. Meanwhile, in the Abyss, Elara cares for the blind Morvath, and the two gradually fall in love, forge a soul blood pact, and conceive a child. When Ares storms the Abyss wedding to reclaim her and is rejected, he stabs Morvath with a poisoned dagger to force Elara’s compliance. In the end, Morvath recovers, breaks through the palace to rescue his wife, and Ares loses everything. This is an epic tale of mistaken identity, misplaced love, and irreversible regret.
