Dante and Damien.
The twins the world had abandoned.
Decades before Amon and Leon were ever fated to walk the earth, the brothers were born in a quiet countryside town to a pair of prosperous merchants.
Their family, though lacking the deep-rooted prestige of ancient houses, had risen with remarkable speed. In just a few generations, they had clawed their way into the ranks of the local elite—wealthy, influential, and ever-present in the circles of power that governed their humble domain.
They stood on the brink of something greater.
Just one step more, and they would ascend into the echelon beneath lordship itself—the threshold where merchants ceased to be mere traders and became figures of true authority.
But that final step was not theirs to take freely.
It belonged to the Holy Church.
