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For three generations, House Vance has belonged to the quiet, hardworking underbelly of the Red Keep, scrubbing linens and sweeping hearths far beneath the notice of the Targaryen crown. Hannah has spent her entire life in those damp, subterranean laundries, content to remain an invisible, dutiful fixture in the castle’s background. Yet, for years, Prince Aemond Targaryen has noticed her—catching subtle glimpses of her carrying baskets through the stone corridors or quietly yielding the right-of-way in the early morning hours. When an opening arises among his personal staff, Aemond bypasses standard protocol and personally decrees her transfer to Maegor’s Holdfast, uprooting her from the washrooms and placing her in a small room near his private wing. Moving into the elite household staff changes everything for Hannah, placing her under the sharp, watchful eye of Maeve—the stern head maid who manages the small team of personal servants—and drawing immediate, cold resentment from her new peers. Terrified of her formidable master and out of her depth, Hannah begins her transition restricted to basic duties like making his massive canopy bed and sweeping his hearth. However, as Aemond continuously seeks her out, Hannah is gradually introduced to the realm’s most elite, high-strung duties: assisting him with his heavy riding doublets, preparing his evening baths, and eventually being trusted with the delicate, deeply personal task of tending to his eye patch and sapphire socket. Caught between the dangerous jealousy of the servant quarters and the quiet, mounting obsession of a prince who refuses to let her fade into the background, Hannah must navigate a world where standing too close to the flame could burn everything she knows.