When the Rainy Season Ends

Amelia Grace Arden. The jade of Arden. It was a name fitting for a family in the mining business. A useless, incompetent, and unrefined woman. Much the opposite of her golden mother, the woman who has told her three things - to stay strong, be kind, and always smile. Yet Amelia could not keep her promise. Not when her stepmother fanned the flames of unsavoury rumours, when her father ignored it all. Amelia was good at looking down and staying silent. There was no other way she could be happy other than that. When news of her brother's return arrives, Amelia begins searching for hope, at last looking up. Until she looks up on the day of the Crown Prince's birthday, catching the cold eyes of the war hero and sole duke of the empire, Rhys Cardanan Valhart.