Speer Windsor was born into one of Siegmara’s most powerful noble houses, but power has never meant freedom.
  Ignored by her father and valued increasingly for what she can become, Speer learns early to survive through knowledge. Strategy. Engineering. Magic. Politics. People. If the world is a system, then perhaps understanding its rules will give her some control over her place within it.
  Instead, every success makes her more useful to someone else.
  When Speer is promised to House Drach in a political marriage, she is pulled into a world of debt, buried histories, disappearing refugees, and secrets older than the kingdom itself. The deeper she looks, the more she begins to question not only the people controlling her life, but the systems that give them the right to do it.
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Psychological Trauma torture Nobility CW Blood, Violence, Mental Abuse tragedy Fantasy, Conspiracy Political Intrigue / Conspiracy Psychological Fantasy politics Female Protagonist Literary Fantasy