by De_Brie
"... I think that the person in front of me right now is the prettiest woman I've ever seen in my life." Melton Tasselt has spent his entire life running; running from his noble family, from his brother's shadow, and from the guilt of a past he refused to face. Now a rookie reconnaissance officer, he's handed an absurd first assignment: investigate Elisabeth of the Den of Sin, a place that supposedly doesn't exist by all records and papers. It does. Hidden beneath the capital's religious district, the Den of Sin is a place where secrets are bought and exchanged alongside the truth, all at a price. Its head, Elisabeth, is as beautiful as she is mysterious, spinning an invisible web day after day from her building built upon malice. Their relationship slowly turns into a ritual: weekly visits, exchanged stories, and a growing attraction neither of them is prepared for. As Melton digs deeper into the empire's disappearances, he uncovers threads tying the Den of Sin to religious conspiracies, the forgotten fate of a saint erased from history, and something far greater than a quaint little building amidst many sites of worship. But the greatest battle lies not in the shadows of the capital, but inside Melton himself. To stand beside Elisabeth, he must stop running from his past, and choose whether he'll cling to duty or risk everything for love and truth. After all, one can only run for so long.
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