Though she was born a noble, Chloe Ardennes has spent the first sixteen years of her life in servitude, scorned by her own family as a “cursed child.” Finally forced to her breaking point, she flees for the royal capital. But rather than happiness, she finds yet more danger there. Just as the city’s dark side threatens to swallow her whole, the dashing and stoic knight Lloyd Stewart comes to her aid and whisks her away. Has Chloe at long last found the sanctuary she’s so longed for? From [J-Novel Club]