Lord Blackwood Is Responsible for the Maid’s Death

Bella Walker, a disgraced noblewoman stripped of her status, lives for a single purpose: to recover her late mother’s music box—and then end her own miserable existence.To retrieve the priceless heirloom, she infiltrates the formidable Blackwood Duchy disguised as a humble maid. Her covert mission takes a dangerous turn when she is caught red-handed by Lord William Blackwood, the lethal young heir known throughout the empire as the ‘Grim Reaper.’ Rather than pleading for mercy, Bella audaciously exposes his weakness and proposes a risky transaction:“I will become your lover.”Thus begins a high-stakes fake relationship that ignites absolute frenzy across aristocratic society. What was meant to be a strictly cold, calculating partnership begins to unravel as William finds himself unnerved by Bella’s self-destructive recklessness and indifference toward her own survival.“Withdraw? Don’t make me laugh. Once she achieves her goal, Bella Walker is a woman I must kill with my own hands.”Bound by a dark contract sealed in secrecy and obsession, can Lord Blackwood bring himself to deliver the deadly end she seeks—or will he burn down everything to keep her alive?