When Julissa Krueger discovers she's carrying Lord Hernando Boyle’s child, she expects reprieve — not a rival from Harbor City’s brightest parlor showing up at the Boyle estate, a secret testament that could change everything, and a husband who keeps choosing the courtesan over his vows. Humiliated, betrayed, and poisoned into near death, Julissa flees with only a sealed will and a stubborn ally at her side: Hernando’s unpredictable younger brother, Pierce Erickson. Julissa chooses not to beg, but to fight. With clever maneuvers she turns evidence into power, drags a scandal into the open, and forces a reckoning at the Boyle hall. Loyalties fracture, titles crumble, and a bold decision to hand the estate’s token to the most unlikely man reconfigures fate — but freedom comes at a cost. Exiled, Hernando plots ruin; the courtesan claws for salvage; and Julissa must decide whether safety is comfort, or whether the new life she builds with Pierce — and the child she vows to protect — will be enough to buy a different kind of legacy. A sharp, fast-paced historical romance of betrayal, courtroom-style humiliation, and slow-burning romance — where every chapter is a new hit back, a new reveal, and one step closer to reclaiming dignity.
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