Summary
“I will take Archduke Barsian as my husband.”
Elena Selum, seeking to escape the Crown Prince’s demand to become his mistress, weds the Archduke of the North. However, her new husband, Theodore Barsian, greets her with nothing but icy disdain.
“No matter how uncivilized you may be as a Southerner, you are now the mistress of Barsian. You would do well to abandon any thoughts of behaving crudely as you did before.”
As the days pass, Elena begins to uncover the haunting secrets of her beautiful but cold husband. Exhausted by her nightmare of a marriage and the harsh life in the frigid North, she resolves to leave him behind.
But will Elena be able to escape the grasp of the Archduke and reclaim her freedom?