The Spark in Your Eyes

The war between the Northern Nations and Mormeratta left countless scars, but for Erkin, a young pharmacist from the frozen north, it carved out a wound that would never heal. Orphaned when the infamous Witch of the Sun claimed his parents on the battlefield, he rebuilt his life in the very nation that had been his enemy. His skill with medicines and toxins soon earned him a reputation, but no amount of success could quiet the embers of vengeance burning within him. When an urgent summons arrives from a shadowy castle to treat a reclusive "master" whose face no living soul has seen, Erkin sees not a duty, but an opportunity. He accepts the perilous commission, convinced that proximity to power will finally lead him to the witch he has hunted for years. Yet the castle is a place of whispers and veils, where nothing is as it seems and every corridor holds a new deception. As he tends to his enigmatic patient, Erkin finds himself drawn into an unsettling bond with the very figure he came to use. What he does not yet realize is that the Witch of the Sun has been watching him far longer than he has been searching for her—and that the line between enemy and ally has already blurred beyond recognition. When the truth finally steps out of the shadows, Erkin will be forced to face an impossible choice: embrace the revenge that has defined him, or confront the unexpected connection that now threatens to dismantle everything he believed.