HYEON MINYE

I dared to fall in love with him. A lone house perched on the cliff of a miserable little island, and the man who was dethroned and exiled there. I watched him on behalf of my sickly father... and I dared to fall in love with him. Without even knowing what my fate entailed.

Some say the king had an affair with his own mother, while others claim he took advantage of hundreds of women and men. These are the rumors Samwol hears on her way to guard the exiled former monarch, Hwan, in her ill father’s stead. Befitting his heinous reputation, Hwan is imprisoned in a house situated between a tiger-infested mountain and a steep cliff. But upon meeting him, Samwol quickly learns that Hwan is nothing like the dangerous image others have planted into her mind. In fact, the more time she spends with him, the more Hwan begins to open up to her about his true past and vulnerabilities. However, growing close to the man everyone despises is sure to come with dire consequences…

“The task is simple. Just become a dog.” Dale Jackson, crushed under a mountain of debt after his father’s company went bankrupt. Lost and helpless in the midst of the Great Depression, he receives a bizarre proposal—become the dog of Charlotte Baskerville, a wealthy young lady. It was an opportunity he couldn’t afford to pass up. Working for the Baskervilles, the wealthiest family in New York, was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. And so, in the end, Dale accepts. “Dale, be a good puppy for me.” “A good puppy? You must be joking. I’m a human, damn it!” Raised in a strict Puritan household, Dale finds Charlotte’s demands utterly preposterous. “Good boy. Now, lick.” “Dogs don’t wear clothes, do they? Let me take them off for you.” “Dale, you have much to learn.” But against his will, his body obeys the woman’s commands. And once tainted by the thrill of disgrace, his consciousness sinks deeper and deeper into the abyss. Charlotte… Ruin me even more. Not knowing where this perilous game will lead him.