Entwined by Fate, Reborn to Love

Clara Satin wants to leave the palace and cannot. She is the Prime Minister's illegitimate daughter, and she has been made a consort of the Emperor, Saul Rex. The soul inside her belongs to Selena Hale, the Empress Dowager of the previous reign, who was poisoned, and Saul is Selena's adopted son. He has spent three years on a blood rite to call his mother's spirit back. The rite worked, and he has no idea that the spirit came back inside Clara. Saul is cold with everyone at court. Because of what he went through as a child, Selena is the only person he has ever felt any warmth toward. To keep Clara from going anywhere he ties the two of them together with a blood pact, so that her life and his are bound. She begins to care for him in spite of herself. Selena's older brother, a general, needs her help, and the way to help him runs through Saul, so Clara sets up one scheme after another to maneuver around the Emperor.