Author's note

Seventeen year old Maise Ward is a girl who hates having to deal with a lot of people at once and never wants to form emotional bonds with others. Her quiet and secluded life is suddenly turned upside down when she is brought to the royal palace and is forced to work for the royal family. The same one who executed her father as a child. Now forced to live among them and serve them as their royal physician just as her father had, Maise is determined to escape, but how will she escape a murderous family with zero intentions of letting her go?