Promises in the Ashes

In Cloudia, there's a strict rule—any woman who remains unmarried by the age of twenty must marry the person the government appoints. Everyone in Kloine knows that Cyrus Gadd, the chancellor’s son, is destined to marry his childhood sweetheart, Nora Curtin. However, just before her twentieth birthday, Cyrus shocks everyone by demanding to marry Nora’s maid first, making her his second wife.