As her whole life collapses, Rae still has books. Dying, she seizes a second chance at living: a magical bargain which lets her enter the world of her favourite fantasy series.
She wakes in a castle on the edge of a hellish chasm, home to the Once and Forever Emperor – her favourite fictional character. He’s impossibly alluring, as only fiction can be. However, in this fantasy world, she discovers that she’s not the heroine, but the villainess, in the Emperor’s tale.
Time to assemble a rogue’s gallery of villains and hatch an evil plot…
