The Exiled Witch and the Strongest Shadow Knight

Twenty years ago, Shiori Tsukikage was branded a useless witch, blamed for a disaster she tried to prevent, and exiled to the cursed island of Yomigashima. The kingdom called her lazy, dangerous, and unnecessary. In truth, she was the only researcher who understood the fatal flaw hidden inside the Great Mana Tower.

Now the kingdom is collapsing under the Mana Stagnation Plague, a disease that makes healing fail, corrupts magic, and spreads faster every day. Desperate and afraid, the royal court sends Shion Arakiba, the strongest shadow knight, to retrieve the woman they once abandoned.

Shion expects to find a broken exile. Instead, he finds Shiori—sharp-tongued, beautiful, dangerous, and far more powerful than the court ever admitted. She agrees to return, but not out of forgiveness. Innocent people are dying, and the truth behind the plague is tied to the same tower she warned them about twenty years ago.

As Shiori exposes false cures, hidden crimes, and the rot beneath the royal palace, Shion is forced to choose between duty and truth. The kingdom wants her cure, the nobles want a scapegoat, and the shadow knight sent to control her may become the only person willing to protect her.

A dark fantasy romance about betrayal, forbidden magic, plague, royal conspiracy, an exiled witch, and the strongest knight who chose her over the throne.