When the Bitter Wind Blows

An exiled governess and a Northern Duke as cold as ice. A romance that blossoms at the end of a bitter winter. Jeanne, a young noblewoman from a fallen aristocratic family, becomes a governess to earn a living. However, after giving one of her students a book containing Enlightenment ideas, she is exiled to the Northern Duchy. The ruler of those lands is Baldr, a cold-hearted duke who governs the desolate North while raising his late elder brother's child on his own. Baldr decides to put Jeanne to the test to determine whether she is suitable to become the child's governess. Yet, as he gets to know her, he finds himself increasingly drawn to her honesty, integrity, and unwavering sense of righteousness. And so, within a heart that had remained frozen like the harshest winter, the first tender sprouts of spring begin to bloom.