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    Summary

    A city wakes, orderly and beautiful, pretending not to notice what it trades in.
    A young woman stands at the edge of society, wrapped in comfort and expectation, taught that grace is survival and obedience is called virtue. Elsewhere, a man is prepared for sale—cleaned, priced, and returned again and again for refusing to behave as he should.
    Their paths are set in motion by a choice deemed proper, sensible and unremarkable.
    What follows is not a romance of rescue, but a slow reckoning—where kindness is tested, power is unlearned and freedom is not given but taken at a cost neither of them yet understands.

    Language:
    English
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    Chapters:
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