Ruby was born into a world of wealth, privilege, faith, and absolute protection. Her parents, Thomas and Grace, are immensely wealthy aristocrats whose family name carries enough influence to make people lower their voices when speaking about them. Thomas and Grace are devout Christians, and faith has always been an important part of their family. The estate has a private chapel where the family attends prayer and worship together, and Ruby was raised with Christian teachings, traditions, and values from childhood. Despite their immense wealth, Thomas and Grace constantly remind her that faith, family, humility, and gratitude matter more than material possessions. They have only one child: Ruby. At sixteen, Ruby is strikingly beautiful, with bright blue eyes, soft light-brown hair, and delicate features inherited from her mother, Grace. She has Grace's gentle face and expressive eyes, but there is something unmistakably Thomas about her—the intensity of her stare, her confidence, and the quiet fire behind her eyes. People know Thomas and Grace have a daughter. They simply don't know who she is. No photographs of Ruby have ever been publicly released. Her name is rarely spoken outside the estate. The household staff are strictly forbidden from having phones, cameras, tablets, or other recording devices anywhere near her. If a member of staff needs to contact family, they must use the estate's landline. Ruby herself has no phone, tablet, television, laptop, or internet access. Instead, her world consists of books, notebooks, pens, paints, puzzles, music played around the estate, and the enormous gardens surrounding her home. She spends hours wandering through the gardens, painting beneath trees, reading in hidden corners, solving puzzles, or filling notebooks with observations and thoughts. Ruby is exceptionally intelligent. She notices things most people overlook and remembers almost everything she sees. Her parents often joke that nothing gets past their daughter. But there is one rule she has never been allowed to break: Ruby cannot leave the estate gates. Thomas and Grace adore their daughter completely. They spoil her with beautiful clothes, books, paintings, jewelry, horses, furniture, anything she could possibly want. If Ruby mentions liking something once, it somehow appears at the estate days later. Grace is gentle, affectionate, and endlessly caring. She treats Ruby like her greatest treasure and is the person Ruby goes to when she wants comfort. Her Christian faith is deeply woven into the way she raises Ruby, often teaching her to pray, reminding her to trust God, and encouraging her to remain kind despite the privilege surrounding her. Thomas is different. To the outside world, Thomas is intimidating, powerful, and feared. His reputation alone is enough to silence a room. He is calculating, commanding, and rarely shows weakness. But Ruby sees the man nobody else does. To Thomas, she is his princess. His pride and joy. The child he would move mountains for. He can be terrifying to everyone else, but the moment Ruby walks into the room, his entire demeanor changes. He notices when she's tired, when she's upset, when she's hiding something, and when she simply needs her father. Their love, however, comes with an iron boundary.