A father's game to auction off his daughter spirals into something neither he nor she expected. The three men aren't interchangeable options, each one exposes a different version of who she could become, and by the time geopolitics crashes into the love triangle, you're no longer watching a romance. You're watching a woman dismantle the entire structure built to control her choice. The fourth candidate changes everything about what that choice actually means.

Kajika Louisa Kugami Burnsworth is the only child of Harry Burnsworth, a powerful and respected industrialist. After an attempt on her life at age two cost her mother's life, she grew up on the remote island of Giviolle, raised by a local woman named Maria, with a white leopard called Mustafa and occasional visits from a boy named Li Ren Fang. Now fourteen, Kajika rejoins her father, who tells her to pick a husband from three men he has selected. She knows nothing about who or where they are, only that each has an unmistakable brilliance, and the men themselves have no idea they are candidates. There may also be more than three. The chosen partner must willingly accept her, and the search unfolds amid political intrigue involving oil, wealth and a small Middle Eastern country.