Hazel is dragged back to House Vance as the lost daughter Seraphine, but they only see a rogue-marked woman with two children. Her parents shame her, Roman rejects their birth contract for Celeste, and House Vance even tries to sell Hazel to a councilman by using her children as leverage. They all think her mate is a nameless rogue. Then the Alpha King's gala begins. Lucian arrives, names Hazel his only Luna and the mother of his heirs, and reveals the truth: the woman they called filthy is the War-Marshal who saved the Vale.