Duke Alaric Voss needs a wife to claim his late father's territory before his uncle seizes it. The law requires a bride of noble blood — but every eligible lady in the empire has been warned away by his reputation as the "Cursed Duke." The only one willing? Lady Serina, a disgraced baron's daughter stripped of her title after her family was framed for treason. Her price: he uses his power to reopen her family's case. He gets his duchy. She gets her name back. Neither planned on the curse being real.