Kara was moments from execution when Emperor Orem—red-eyed, long-haired, and merciless—spared her. She thought it was mercy. It wasn’t. He took her not as prisoner, but as slave. Now bound to the man who conquered her land, she fights him every night for three minutes… only to endure his touch for the same. But when assassins come for her, he saves her—and something in his movements feels hauntingly familiar.

Trapped in a desolate, sun-baked landscape, Anderson, a man consumed by grief and a desperate love, performs a forbidden ritual at a mysterious crossroads. His goal: to bargain with a demon to reclaim what he's lost. But the entity that appears is far more powerful and cunning than he ever imagined, twisting their pact into a terrifying game of storytelling where the stakes are his very soul. Can Anderson navigate the demon's insidious challenges and survive the tales he's forced to weave, or will he become another tragic story in the demon's collection?