Sekhet

Evarne Stornway has been raised on a singular principle: beauty is the highest calling. Her father Leo filled her world with classical art and ancient ideals, shaping her into a creature of rare aesthetic perfection. When death comes for Leo, Evarne discovers that his philosophy offered her no practical armor for survival. Alone, unmoored, she faces a world that values women for anything but their minds. Then Morris Kenyon arrives. Her father's oldest friend offers not just rescue but something more dangerous: the promise of a different life, one where Evarne might be seen as something other than a beautiful object. But can she escape the prison of her own beauty when it has been the only language she's ever been taught to speak? Sekhet takes its name from the Egyptian goddess of medicine and war, the fierce healer who protects and destroys. This early 20th century novel asks what remains when everything beautiful must eventually die.