My Husband Sold Me to the Grand Duke

Selenia was sold to cover her father’s debts and forced into an engagement with Rosend—
a ruffian of unmatched depravity and brutality, infamous even within the Hudson Empire.
“Smile. Are you going to keep advertising that you were sold?”
Before a marriage that was certain to be h*ll, Selenia boards an engagement celebration cruise.
There, she witnesses Rosend, panting with a government official clinging to him, and flees in terror to the deck.
That is where she meets a man dazzlingly beautiful to the eye—
the owner of this vast and magnificent cruise ship:
Archduke Daniel Libertás.
“Please help me. I—I don’t want to go back.”
“If you need somewhere to hide while you’re here, come find me. Whenever you wish.”
Leaning on his readily offered kindness, Selenia hides away for a single night.
Sensing the Archduke’s interest, Rosend decides to brazenly push his fiancée into his arms.
“Your future father-in-law already sold you to me—what’s a few loans of your body? It’s not like you’ll wear out.”
“Please, don’t do this!”
“Do as you’re told!! I need the money. Do you want to watch your whole family die?”
With her cheek swollen, Selenia enters the bedroom.
Seeing her, Daniel reaches out to her once more.
“Take my hand, Selenia. Ask me for help.”
Behind her lay fire; before her, a cliff. Selenia had no choice but to decide.
There was only one thing she desired.
“Please make Rosend pay for every one of his sins.”
On her first night with Daniel,
Selenia cast everything she was into the sea.