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Summary:

All Eislyn knew her whole life were the walls and paths of Fawney Rig, her uncles manor, never allowed to leave its Gothic confines nor walk the gardens without a chaperone. She grew up in richness, raised to be a lady, a noblewoman of the Burgess family, but a gilded cage is still just a cage.
Controlled and abused for her mysterious ability by the same man that claimed to consider her his own blood, Eislyn soon found solace and a friend in another prisoner of the manor, the only being she felt could truly understand her and who wouldn't have betrayed her to please her family like everyone else.
Alexander Burgess had her promise, as a child, never to enter the basement nor approach the eldritch creature therein imprisoned, lest it would have used her to take revenge on all of them, but freedom is too sweet a promise to let go and one captive couldn't seize it without the help of the other.
He was her last hope as much as she was his, but what was to become of her once outside the confines of her beautiful prison?

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