The Thorned Legacy
Once, long before Lyra Michelson was born, a girl made a mistake.
She loved a man the world told her not to. Not because he was cruel. Not because he was unworthy. But because he was powerless, and she was not.
She defied her family. She chose love over bloodlines, heart over legacy.
And the world punished her for it.
When the council found out, they didn't just end the man's life. They ended the future. A curse was cast—deep, precise, and cruel.
"Let the daughters of this line love at their own peril.
Let affection become poison.
Let devotion draw death."
It wasn't dramatic magic. It was quiet, insidious. The kind that settles in the marrow of a bloodline, threading itself through every daughter born after.
Lyra was the third of her name. And the most dangerous.
Because unlike the others, she had not given in.
Not yet.