The Twin's Requiem

Twin sisters are born into the household of the Minister of War, but an imperial decree against twins leads the family to hide the younger one, Lorraine, away in a cottage on the back hill. Only her sister Winifred shows her warmth and sincerity, and that bond becomes the one bright thing in Lorraine's isolated life. When Winifred dies a brutal death on her wedding night, Lorraine makes a grim decision: she inflicts the same wounds on herself and takes her sister's place in Prince Jance's mansion. Under that borrowed identity she begins a slow, deliberate campaign of revenge.