Princess Charlotte slips home after a political marriage—only to be branded a seductress by Empress-to-be Sophia. Iron maidens bite her bloodied fingers as Sophia smirks: "Confess your witchcraft." But when royal seals glint beneath Charlotte’s torn skin, the tyrant swaps torturers for arsonists. Too late. The princess’s screams choked seven winters ago now echo through Sophia’s coronation chariot… and five stallions hunger for imperial flesh.