Once reviled as the wicked magician Hailey, the most hated woman in the realm, she was cast into a poisoned wasteland to die. But death never came. A year later, she’s alive and farming, bickering with a tree fairy, and somehow the new Marchioness Maron. As secrets of the contamination zone begin to surface and the ghosts of her past return, Hailey must decide whether to seek vengeance or build something new from ruins. When survival itself becomes the greatest twist of fate, who needs revenge?