In the continent of Eserland, where the Nine Kingdoms are on the verge of being broken, the gray tide engulfs the north, the Ember Throne hangs empty, and the ancient Fireborn bloodline quietly awakens.
Leah Goldpaw is the eldest daughter of a wealthy southern family. She hides a fatal secret: she can hear the truest whispers in other people's hearts - as long as she touches the other person's skin, the other person's strongest thoughts will burn her consciousness like fire.
This ability makes her torn between revenge and love, and also makes her a "living lie detector" coveted by all parties.
When Bran, the bastard from the north, brought news of the Gray Tide invasion, when the fallen knight Korn approached with ancient dragon scales, when Cecilia, the inquisitor of the Pure Fire Cult, began to hunt down all magic - every voice heard by Leah revealed the truth about the fire that wiped out the clan fifteen years ago.
But the person she wanted to read the most, the son of her enemy who she was forced to marry, always made her hear a whisper that made her collapse: "I know you can hear it. That sentence is false."
——Lies and truth are intertwined. The first thing a mind reader loses is his or her own heart.
