A knight sworn to the crown is sent to the forest to kill a witch living alone in the woods. She is supposed to be a monster. A threat. A reason for fear. But when he finds her, she is nothing like the stories. What begins as duty turns into obsession, and what should have been a clean execution becomes something far more dangerous—desire. He was trained to kill witches without hesitation. She was never meant to survive meeting him. And yet, every time he leaves, he comes back.