Gilded Poison

Lena Hartwell trades her threadbare existence for the opulent world of Aldric Thorn, a pharmaceutical titan in the Republic of Eldoria. But her ascent from poverty to the gilded halls of Thorn Manor comes with an unspoken covenant. Aldric’s perfect drug slowly erases her legal identity, rendering her a pliant, incapacitated wife. Trapped in a chemically induced twilight, Lena must find the sliver of lucidity needed to break free—before the interest on her social climb costs her very soul.