

Lorna Grant is brought into the household as a child bride, raised under their roof and worked to the bone by the very family she is meant to belong to. What they intend as submission becomes something else entirely. By accident or by design, they sharpen her. A twist of fate pulls her into an assassin organization where her instincts, honed by years of surviving the wrong people, turn out to be exactly the right currency. She rises quietly and then all at once, becoming the most formidable blade in the guild. The men who once ignored her, dismissed her, looked through her now compete fiercely for her attention. The household that broke her in never imagined it was building a weapon.

Charlie guards the Demon-Sealing Tower for 1,000 years, holding back three top-tier Beast Kings and hordes of Soul Beasts that all tremble at his blade. The Sky Kingdom royal court frames him as unfit for the post and forces him to abandon the tower. Half a day after he leaves, the tower shatters, and billions of Soul Beasts flood the Human World.