Husband Exchange

Rubier, Avenne’s younger half-sister whom she had loved unreservedly, had an affair with her fiance.

“Sister, break off your engagement with him. I want to marry him.”

After spending a passionate night with Avenne’s fiance, Rubier pushed Avenne from the terrace when she refused to call off the wedding.
Then, by some miracle, Avenne was given a second chance at life.

“Do you love Victor? Then you may marry him.”

Having abandoned her family, her fiance and even her house, Avenne decided to claim the man who was supposed to become her sister’s husband.

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And so, Avenne married Cassian Noctaven, a man cursed to transform into a monster.
Their contractual marriage began with an agreement: she would restore the disgraced ducal house and break his curse.

“Kiss me. Hurry.”

Yet for some reason, her husband was insatiable in bed.

“Her Grace is the savior of Noctaven—no, of the entire North!”

Every member of the ducal household and every resident of the territory became preoccupied with praising her.

“I heard that getting your name on the waiting list for the Duchess’s salon is as difficult as plucking a star from the sky. They say every hotel in the North is fully booked because so many people are planning to visit the salon the moment it opens.”

Eventually, even the North — once an isolated land — rose to become the center of the empire almost overnight.

Had exchanging husbands somehow transformed her entire life for the better?