It was both an elopement born of love and a reckless, desperate gamble that wagered the entirety of Ethan Fairchild’s pitiful life. But to his noble first love, who never lost her place no matter how reckless the wager, love had been nothing more than a fleeting, dangerous amusement. Lady Evelyn of Kentrell, the daughter of a noble house, discarded him like a useless card—into prison. Ten years later, the man who returned to the paradise atop the cliff as a ghost of vengeance did not yet know that to complete this grand finale of revenge, a tale written in the blood of his kin and sealed only with the blood of his enemy, he would have to kill his own son with his own hands. “I beg you, investigator. Please give Ethan Fairchild the most severe punishment allowed by law.” – Lady Evelyn Sherwood of Kentrell