The Eighth Bride

archduke gabriel de luzia is cursed. since his seventh bride died in a tragic accident, he's become an outcast and has stayed holed up in his castle. his only companions there are his loyal servants, until the day a young woman comes wandering right through the castle's protective magical barrier! having traveled all the way from her village, marianne has a favor to ask of gabriel, but nothing comes for free in this world, and what the archduke asks of her in return could put her life at stake!