Evelyn Ashcombe broke every rule of her old-money family to marry a penniless stranger. Three years later, they still call him “the help”: Silas serves at their table, wipes their shoes and takes every insult in silence. Now her mother wants a divorce by Saturday and a richer husband for her, Cassius Vance, the heir whose bank holds the family’s debt. But Silas wears a black iron ring carved with seven runes, and every humiliation burns one out. The Ashcombes think their daughter married a servant. They have no idea what they let into their house.
