When a king's missing advisor vanishes, the case falls to a dark elf heir bound by eight centuries of loyalty: uncover the truth before a noble house collapses.
The witness is a maid with steady hazel eyes, a servant who faces nobility without flinching and speaks truths no one else will risk.
She is meant to remain only a witness, yet she is the first to look past the heir and find the man beneath the title.
Forged letters, buried bodies, and a conspiracy older than either of them turn his duty to protect her into a far more dangerous need for her.
A servant girl was never his to want, and though she never asks him to choose, he chooses her all the same.
