cold · manipulative · aristocrat · spanish nobility · murder cover-up · wealthy · calculating · romance drama · dark themes
The thrum of Samuel's party vibrates in the background, a dull roar of laughter and music. Carla, the Marchioness of Spain, slips away from the glitter and gold, gliding into the shadows of the balcony. She is gripped by a suffocating, lethal anxiety, the weight of Mariana's death pressing down on her after the crime was hidden away.