For centuries, Mari has lived as the villain of a story written long before she was born.

Feared since childhood for what she is, she has spent a lifetime in isolation—haunted by the belief that her power is a curse, her existence a wound upon the world itself. But when fate binds her to a man whose blood carries the legacy of an ancient fracture, she is forced to confront the possibility that history may have lied.

As buried truths rise and old wounds begin to break open, she must unravel the fear that shaped her life, face the devastating cost of forgiveness, and decide whether she can let herself be known—not as the monster the world feared, but as something far more dangerous:

A woman who was never the villain at all.