Like Wind on a Dry Branch Raw

남편을 잃고, 아이를 빼앗기고, 이제 생매장을 눈 앞에 둔 과부 리에타. 그 곳에 ‘미친 폐황자’로 불리는 저주받은 땅, 악시아스 성의 대공. 킬리언이 나타났다. 그녀를 데려가겠다고 말하는 킬리언이 인사를 건넨다. “안녕, 요부”

As plague and turmoil afflicts the empire, enchanting widow Rieta Tristi finds herself at the mercy of a malicious nobleman and his dying wish to have her buried alive beside his corpse. The plague has taken her husband, slave traders have taken her young child, and now her own life is at risk — until an unexpected visit from the empire’s outcast prince changes everything.