A mysterious love letter arrives to your windowsill. You fall for the words, not the face, and a secret romance blossoms through letters alone. But when a proposal comes for your sister, your father sends you instead of her to marry Emperor Alaric, a man feared across empires. He expected someone else. He never wanted you. Now, isolated in a palace wing for unwanted guests, mocked by courtiers and abandoned by servants you wait in silence… until the chickadee returns.