Chapter 14: The Condition of Life

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"Some flames can't be put out by seven hundred days of ice and snow. And some vows stay carved into instinct, even when memory has been wiped into a blank page—the warmth of a certain person still remembered." Franziska carries the purest bloodline of the Stroheim clan, but she doesn't know it. She recalls neither her past nor her lineage, nor the people who once stood beside her. Franziska remembers only the warmth that calmed her heart, and the gentle light of the man who became her anchor through more than 700 days of deep sleep. When she wakes, surrounded by conspiracies and red blood, Franziska must rebuild herself piece by piece. She will have to face the most painful question of all: if her memories are gone, can love and a vow still find their way back?

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