ISEULT I'm trapped. Brought into hell on earth because I had the misfortune to be born a woman of noble blood. There's only one way out of this nightmare I'm living - to give him what he wants. To do the one thing I never wanted to do. Give him an heir. HELMAR I'm trapped. Spare to the heir of the throne, a seat I've thirsted for my whole life and one I can never have. Living a facade to appease my family, pretending I am not the thing they fear most, the thing they hate. A monster. In this prequel novella to 'Queen of Poison & Fire,' discover what happened when Helmar met Iseult and set fate on a course no one could predict.