Chrysantha Stathos has played the game well—disguising her sharp wit behind the persona of a shallow beauty to secure her fortune and a duchess’s title. With her elderly husband’s death, freedom, wealth, and security seem within reach. But life has other plans.
When Eryx Demos, her late husband’s enigmatic and infuriatingly handsome grandson, arrives to claim her inheritance, Chrysantha’s perfect plan begins to unravel. As if that’s not enough, her younger sister is set to become queen—and won’t let her forget it.
Determined to outshine her sister’s royal wedding and rid herself of Eryx, Chrysantha will stop at nothing. But Eryx’s dangerous powers—and her own traitorous heart—might prove to be her undoing. After all, a Stathos girl always gets what she wants…right?
