She was abandoned as a bastard, her mother humiliated and killed for protecting the man who betrayed them. Hidden in the shadows of the palace walls for sixteen years, Grace Clark’s life was nothing but a lie woven by power and hypocrisy. When she emerges from the darkness, selling herself to bury her mother and storming the imperial court, she swears to make the prime minister and his family pay for their crimes. But in this web of palace intrigue and deadly power struggles, can a "disgraced daughter" truly avenge her mother… or will she be consumed by the very darkness she’s fighting?