Synopsis
Blessed yet cursed with fate, life had always been simple and clear for Lennox Carlisle, the Duke of the North.
Life and death, black and white.
He simply seized what he wanted and discarded what had lost its use.
Even the lover who came to him seven years ago—seeking vengeance for her parents in exchange for a contractual relationship—was no exception.
“I fell in love with you at first sight.”
It was a satisfactory bargain.
Juliet Monad—clever, secretive, quick-witted.
A convenient arrangement, like a child’s play of lovers, one that he could easily end whenever boredom set in.
Or so he believed.
“I want to stop now. I don’t love you anymore, Your Grace.”
The woman who once leaned on him with the quiet serenity of winter and the warmth of spring
uttered her farewell like a confession—
and before fleeing, struck him with the sharpest blade.
For Juliet Monad, the fallen earl’s daughter and the duke’s reckless, temporary lover, life had always been both fair and cruel.
It was as though fate had granted her a second life, yet denied her any chance to change it.
A child she never got to hold. Parents she failed to save.
And a first love—arrogant as summer, cruel as autumn—who, once again, would ultimately forget her forever.
Standing before the closed door, Juliet thought:
The key in her hand was small and shabby, while the door before her was unyielding.
If no amount of struggle could free her from her destined path, then what should she do?
She proposed a contract to the man who had once been her first love:
Help me with my revenge, and I’ll give you what you desire.
Rather than be deceived and discarded again, this time she would use and be used—
and end things on her own terms.
Seven years after abandoning her contract lover,
on the night when cold misunderstandings and betrayals boiled into a chase,
Juliet, for the first time, heard the sound of fate’s unshakable chains beginning to crack.
“You’ve lost, Juliet. So give up.”
“If you wanted to run, you shouldn’t have let slip that you’re carrying my child.”
The door opened, and her secret was exposed.
From the storm unleashed by a butterfly’s wings,
the long-awaited promise and vengeance finally began.
A full-length romance fantasy novel by Cha Yuro,
<The Forgotten Juliet>.
