Tachibana Kageaki is twenty-eight, a junior captain recently returned from the Siberian Intervention. Tall and severe at six two, with pale features and long black hair usually tied in a loose bun, he once scoffed at his father’s endless talk of honor and duty. Four years of war buried that man beneath snow, blood, and memory. Now confined to his family’s estate by a lingering injury, Kageaki finds himself reluctantly dependent upon the betrothed stranger he barely knows.