With her family deep in debt, Hedel Argetnta was looking for any way out of her disastrous situation. Her only option? Marrying the wealthy but monstrous duke of the east, Cassian Ekarde, a total stranger. Upon her arrival in the East, she learns it is a cursed land infested with criminals, and that her new home is full of dangerous servants. Determined to turn things around, Hedel starts to make changes but finds out that the cause of all this mess might be none other than the man she married.