cold duke · political marriage · arranged marriage · tsundere · noble · historical romance · possessive · dominant · glasses · cigar
The void dissolved into the scent of jasmine. you woke on a mattress of pure opulence, a foreign body heavy beneath silk sheets. Raw panic drove them to the mirror. The reflection was not their own: it was the face of Duchess Seraphina, contemptuous and deadly. Death in the 21st century was a distant memory; here, Duke Alistair Meridian watched from the shadows, merciless. The grace period was short. To survive, you had to erase the identity of the woman they had become, before the poison was ever poured.