Last updated on 05/19/2026
What if your soul returns to its original body, but you remember nothing?
For Alicia, waking up in the world of a historical fantasy novel as Lady Alicia Vermillion, the antagonist destined to die, is nothing short of a nightmare.
Having already died once—which is how she ended up here in the first place—she’s adamant that history isn’t going to repeat itself. Story be damned.
Unfortunately for her, fate is a powerful thing, and despite her best efforts, some things just can’t be changed. When she’s shipped off to the neighbouring country of Stein to marry Grand Duke Kalon Stein, the emperor’s son, she makes a plan: delay their marriage until he meets and falls for the book’s heroine, then prance off into the sunset.
If she never meets the woman, she can never be accused of trying to kill her.
Except nothing is going the way she remembers. The cold, indifferent character in the book is nothing like the obsessive, dedicated man in front of her. As far as Kalon is concerned, Alicia is his, and nothing can change that.
Not even when the heroine shows up ‘early.’
He doesn’t understand why she thinks he’s going to fall for another woman. She doesn’t understand why he hasn’t.
But with threats lurking around every corner, the story Alicia thinks she knows is falling to pieces—and one thing is clear.
There’s more than one way for her to die in this world, and if that happens, Kalon might just burn it to ashes…
Review:
This one took me a while to really get into–romantasy isn’t my preferred genre–but characters being thrown into the world of another novel very much is, and somewhere around the halfway point this one had me absolutely gripped…
…until we were literally taken out of the novel by a second visit to the entity who put Allie into her predicament in the first place–I guess it was information she (and we) needed to know? But the method we got it in felt a bit too info-dumpy to really stand. I’m not sure how that could have been delivered better, but that is the primary reason that this was a 4-star review and not any higher.
Once she was delivered back into the other world, things picked back up again–though by that time the book was practically over. It ended with a big revelation, and…now we have to wait for book 2, which will come out…IDK when? I really hope it’s soon, because otherwise I’m going to forget everything that happened here!
Rating: 4 stars / B+
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy of this book.
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