He was raised to be a monster. She was raised by one. Yelena Morozova has everything: the family stables, the champion stallion, the gala where the whole equestrian world comes to toast her name. Then a stranger with a curved dagger walks into her barn, and she wakes up in a cell beneath a castle in the mountains of Dravenia. The Vautrin brothers don’t want a ransom. They want her father. And the middle brother, Lucien, wants something far more personal: he wants the daughter of the man who broke him as a boy to know exactly what breaking feels like. Lucien has spent years turning stolen girls into merchandise for the King and Queen of Varnok. Yelena was supposed to be one more. But she doesn’t beg, she doesn’t fold, and every time he tries to destroy her, she looks him dead in the eye and promises she will walk out of his castle alive. He hates her for it. He can’t stop watching her. And when the King comes to the castle with guns, Yelena finally gets her chance to run. She just doesn’t know who’s waiting at the bottom of the mountain.