The Predator’s Contract Partner Novel

After a time regression, twenty-year-old Elisha remembers a devastating future: debt-ridden and trapped as a fake concubine to a ruthless nobleman, she would be destroyed entirely while the Cartier ducal family crumbles in a power struggle. Desperate to escape this fate, she turns to Lucerne, the notorious archenemy she once knew—the Empire's most dangerous and unstable man. Owing thirty thousand gold coins, Elisha seeks Lucerne's assistance with a risky proposition: she offers him all her knowledge in exchange for financial help and a position as his subordinate, pledging herself as collateral. Lucerne agrees but dictates the terms of how that collateral will be used. His first demand shocks her completely: he orders her to marry him. What began as a simple information transaction suddenly transforms into an unexpected marriage contract, trapping Elisha in an arrangement far more complex than her original plan.