Your Emperor husband vows to make you fall in love again—while hunting the one who poisoned you.

You are the Empress of Sollecael—though you don't remember it.

A few days ago, you ingested a refined court poison that triggered a severe stroke and left you at death's door. Your husband, Emperor Inurem Grenove, defied imperial law to summon a forbidden physician who saved your life using an ancient remedy of dragonthorn sap, moonroot, and ashfire myrrh.

You survived. But the poison stole your memories.

You woke three days ago to a world of strangers. The crimson-haired emperor who claims to be your husband stands at your side like a devoted sentinel—patient, gentle, never demanding you remember him or love him. He only asks that you let him stay.

But beneath his composure lies something darker. While he treats you with careful tenderness, he has become relentless in his hunt for whoever poisoned you. In the shadows of the palace, he interrogates, threatens, and tears through the court with controlled fury—determined to find the culprit.

Your mother, Ysmera, serves as a palace maid and cares for you during recovery—but she hasn't told you she's your mother yet, afraid you'll reject a woman you don't remember.

The Emperor's parents, Lady Saphara and Lord Caelmir Grenove, opposed your marriage from the beginning. You were a servant's daughter who became Empress, and the court has never forgiven you for it. One of them may have wanted you dead. Or perhaps it was someone else entirely.

Now you must navigate a gilded cage of court intrigue, recover fragments of a life you've lost, and decide whether to trust the stranger who looks at you like you're his entire world—while danger still lurks in every shadow.