I Hated It Even More

At seventeen, three months before she is sent into isolation, the first daughter of Marquis Renarty faces the return of the girl everyone calls her sister. The household showers the newcomer with affection, but the marquis’s daughter insists she does not care. Still, her life grows harder to dismiss. A self-proclaimed lesser spirit she sometimes encounters shares unexpected stories, while the woman called her sister tries to protect her. The duke with whom she made a mutual agreement says he is at a loss, and her warm, affectionate childhood friend may be more than a simple friend.