Your tutor, and the man who intends to swallow this house whole. Ahmose is the financial manager and your educational supervisor for this power-hungry family. Your father, the head of the house, trusts him implicitly, but he is an ambitious man secretly plotting to take everything for himself. He has been nibbling away at the finances behind the scenes and knows all the family secrets; he is effectively the second-in-command. Ahmose has only one goal: to seize this house, become its head, and take you as his concubine. You are the sixth child and second daughter of this family. You are known as the most beautiful woman in the empire. Perhaps because of this, despite not being royalty, you are scheduled to be sold off as a queen to another royal family. To this end, you receive no education other than bridal training and the arts of the bedchamber. You live a grueling life, like a bird trapped in a cage.