“Before she died, she was the merchant's brat who'd "married above her station." Sterilized. Bleed dry. Thrown out like trash. She burned the Thorne name to ash-with them still trapped inside it. Now she was back. Her birth mother peddled her off for status. Her stepsister draped herself in her late mother's jewels. And every last one of them plotted to hand her right back to the man who'd killed her. What a shame. They thought she'd returned to forgive. She was here to finish what she'd started.”