Lumina's blindness masks her sharpest weapon—a mind as keen as any blade. Cursed by her mother's sacrifice to shield her from darkness, she navigates the treacherous court with calculated grace, concealing dangerous truths behind measured words. When forced into an unwanted marriage with Ashen, the disgraced Dragon Prince of Drakonia, she sees an opportunity neither of them expected. Ashen drowns his bitterness in forgotten kingdoms and stronger drink, dismissed as weak by those who refuse to look deeper. The realm knows him as a failure, a cursed son unworthy of his birthright. But when Lumina's voice cuts through his haze with brutal clarity—calling him exactly what he is—something dormant within him stirs. A heartbeat not his own. A connection that demands possession. Their bargain is simple: two years to restore her sight, in exchange for the power and legitimacy only she can grant him. Yet as Lumina outmaneuvers family conspiracies and hidden enemies, and Ashen discovers strength he never claimed, their arrangement deepens into something neither anticipated. In a realm of deception and dragon fire, the blind princess and the cursed prince become each other's greatest weapon—or their ultimate undoing.