Aleysha, concealing her past, assumes the identity of a princess and is to be sacrificed to Emperor Valluram in a bid for peace between nations. But as the emperor demands she remove her hand, she stands naked and exposed before him.
Raised in the countryside with only her mother, Aleysha is captured by guards when they discover that her mother had stolen a jewel from the queen years ago. In order to pay for the crime, Aleysha must marry Emperor Valluram of Lynizen, but as the emperor rejects the marriage, she struggles to convince him of her royal status.
Initially wary of the cold and distant emperor, Aleysha finds herself drawn to Valluram's hidden gentle side over time, even as she struggles to understand his unforeseeable complexity.
