Knight of the Scaffold

Seventeen-year-old noblewoman Arnoir Sophia has seven minutes left to live—falsely condemned by a law that needs no proof, only a royal accusation. Betrayed by her father, abandoned by her friends, and sentenced to die by the man who once called her his betrothed, she stands on the scaffold with her eyes open, refusing to surrender the one thing left to her: her pride. Then the blade stops. The Knight of the Scaffold—an executioner feared and shunned by all of Vernard Kingdom—cannot bring hims