The Golden Empire's Greatest Marketing PR Villainess
Evelyn Hart had a plan.
Work hard. Climb the corporate ladder. Visit her parents more often. Maybe—finally—say yes to that blind date her best friend kept insisting on.
Instead, she died driving home from work.
When she opens her eyes, she's no longer Evelyn. She's Lyra Averno, the infamous Duchess of House Averno—a woman feared by her servants, despised by high society, and destined to meet a very public execution.
There's just one tiny problem.
Evelyn remembers the novel.
She knows exactly how Lyra's story ends.
Married to the cold and impossibly handsome Duke Kael Averno, commander of the Empire's greatest military force, Lyra is trapped in a loveless marriage, surrounded by political enemies, suspicious nobles, and a household that flinches every time she speaks.
Execution isn't years away.
It's waiting for her.
Determined to rewrite her fate, Evelyn does what she's always done best: treat the impossible like another project.
Step one: Stop terrifying the servants.
Step two: Repair her disastrous reputation.
Step three: Convince her emotionally unavailable husband that she's not plotting something.
Step four: Somehow survive court politics, noble conspiracies, assassination attempts, and the original story's relentless march toward her death.
Easy.
...Right?
Armed with nothing but modern common sense, a sharp tongue, and years of surviving impossible corporate deadlines, Evelyn is about to discover that changing a villainess's ending is far more complicated than any five-year plan she ever made.
After all, in an empire where everyone already knows who the villain is...
How do you convince them you've become someone else?