After the war, they believed she was just another name added to the endless list of the fallen — her torn clothes and a single necklace the only proof she had ever been there at all. While the world moved on, Mattheo did not. Consumed by grief, he unraveled in the quiet aftermath, mourning a love he thought the war had stolen forever. Years passed, yet he remained tethered to her memory, wearing the necklace as both a relic and a wound that refused to close. But when the Ministry arrives…