The Duke's Slave (Book 1)

She was given as a gift. But no one warned that a gift could ruin a man — and set an empire ablaze.

Vanessa never imagined the simple life she knew would be torn from her hands so brutally. Handed over as a token of gratitude from the Empress to the arrogant and cruel Raphael Ackerman, the future Duke of Theryon, she finds herself imprisoned in a reality where beauty and power are masks for pain and submission.

In an empire steeped in ancient traditions, where nobles decide who lives and who is forgotten, Vanessa refuses to be a disposable pawn. But silence won't save her — and she soon realizes her only chance of survival may lie in setting fire to the very man who holds her captive.

Raphael is a man marked by the scars of war, shrouded in shadows and secrets that not even the court suspects. Promised to a political alliance that will sustain the duchy, he cannot afford to feel — least of all for a woman who was meant to be nothing more than a possession in his hands.

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