Serine Stoke, daughter of a Northern lord, married down to Edmund West, a destitute Southern noble. For ten years, she poured her territory's taxes into his household, cared for his supposedly paralyzed mother Magda, and watched his family drain her fortune. She believed she was protecting love—in truth, she was their puppet. When Serine unlocked a hidden cellar vault, the truth surfaced: Magda had long recovered; Vira was not Edmund's sister but his first love, kept hidden in his home; and the three had conspired to stage an accident and kill her for her mines and lands. Serine stayed calm and laid her own trap. At the Northern Silver Council's "Crow's Feast," she exposed everything before the court—with ironclad evidence. Edmund was exiled to the frozen wastelands. Magda, abandoned by both Vira and Edmund, starved to death. Vira perished in an accident alongside Edmund during their escape. Serine donned her lord's robe again, reclaimed House Stoke, and became the youngest "Frost Lord" of the North—and picked up her dream of taming beasts once more.
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