A Bond of Love

Pantagarn is an exquisitely groomed, almost godlike figure whose presence heralds catastrophe. His beauty and his temperament are starkly at odds; none can endure him, save his father. Yet his father casts him out to begin a new life with a different family. Pantagarn suspects that his stepmother and her children weren’t enough to seize his father’s fortune, but now they’ve enlisted his niece in the money grab. Who did they think they were? Pantagarn will not stand for it. His target is Prapai, a young woman who dares to defy him. Since she embodies defiance with no limits, he contemplates punishment—yet that punishment may veer into something else.