Orphaned as an infant when the dragon royal family fell, Ayla was hidden at House Thorne and raised as a nobody, betrothed since childhood to Lucien, the eldest son. But on their engagement day, Lucien publicly dumps her and proposes to her foster sister Mara, who believes she is the true royal heir. Humiliated, Ayla rips up the contract and marries Kael instead — Lucien's quiet, bastard-born younger brother who has loved her for years — within hours.
