From frail young girl to the only white mage in her territory, every step she takes breaks another link in the thousand-year-old iron curtain between church and crown.
Daisy, the only daughter of the Duke of Hells, was on the brink of death when the herbalist Morgan forcibly restored the balance within her body. From then on, she could see spirits and control the elements. Everyone believed she had been kept alive by a miracle. Only she knew the truth: her blood was 'forbidden.'
When the king's new decree handed supernatural affairs over to the lords, she volunteered to take on the hot potato her father had tossed her. From finding a lost infant's soul for a farmer's wife to venturing alone into the Forest of Death to decipher its incantations, she proved time and again in the field that magic was not a gift from the gods, but an extension of the human heart and will.
But the Southern Church's hidden schemes ran deeper than the forest.
Blasphemers, the Cinder Society, missing mages, Holvin runes carved into ancient trees... Every lead pointed to a conspiracy hidden beneath holy robes. And the 'heretics' sent to the stake were merely the first pawns to be sacrificed in a game of chess.
The person she had to save was not just one knight, but her entire territory, and even the future of the kingdom's new system of magic.
From struggling to hold a single petal steady to reverse-engineering a magic array;
from a young lady hiding behind her father to a representative of the lord standing alone before a bishop to sign an order of registration,
this path was full of thorns, but she never backed down.
She said, "I have the right to know the truth, and the right to protect everything I want to protect."
From being protected to protecting others, she was never anyone's appendage. She was the one moving the pieces in her own fate.
Reader's Guide:
1. One-on-one romance, sexually inexperienced leads, happy ending.
2. Western fantasy magic + slow-burn mystery + knights and ladies with romantic tension.
3. The beginning really is very slow, very slow. It's perfectly fine to read this as a light, casual story.
4. Well, I'll add more if needed (I changed it to a more highbrow blurb, please bear with me).
Theme: Some paths only reveal themselves as abysses once you enter them. But even in the abyss, you must carry a torch.
