The Duchess Lives Only for This Day

Born into a cursed lineage where no daughter survives adulthood, Frida Harkbourne was sold into a political marriage with the feared war hero, Duke Daniel Richards. Abandoned at the altar and left with a comatose husband, she found a fleeting freedom in the shadows of his barren territory. But three years later, the beast awakens. Daniel returns to find a land transformed and a duchess whose spirit is as fierce as her body is frail. Now, amidst a storm of imperial conspiracies and deadly succession wars, two broken souls must forge an unlikely alliance. Will their bond be enough to defy fate, or will time run out for the dying duchess? Dive into the struggle for survival and love—read Chapter 1 now!