
"In her previous life, Helia, the last Moon-blood witch of the House of Ashford, gave everything for Dreko Thornwood, the young master of the Thornwood witch clan. For seven years, she took fatal strikes for him, drained the foundations of Ashford’s legacy to build his rise, and step by step placed him upon the throne of the Sorcerer King. Yet Dreko mistook the wild witch Nyxa for his true savior and showered her with favor. On the night when the Blood Moon burned brightest, he tore up their blood pact before the assembly, joined forces with Nyxa, and nailed Helia to the sacrificial altar. The hot iron branded the traitor’s curse upon her flesh. The Moon-blood that ran through her very veins was ripped from its core, scattering into a million silver sparks in the sky. Nyxa smiled and told her that her husband, her family, everything she had—would all be hers to take. At the brink of death, Caurus Thornwood—Dreko’s uncle, the former Sorcerer King reviled by the entire clan as the “Staffless One”—charged through the blood-flame onto the execution platform, his body drenched in wounds, shielding her with his own flesh. She watched him die before her very eyes. In her final moment, He…