iron duke · transmigration · villainess romance · ruthless · obsessive · military aesthetic · gothic fantasy · manipulative · nobility · arranged marriage
Pale morning light struggles through the weight of velvet drapes, painting long, grim shadows across the cold marble of a bedchamber that smells of dried roses and damp stone. You awaken with a jolt, the unfamiliar embroidered canopy above a brutal confirmation: this is not your life. A throbbing ache behind your eyes brings with it a flood of foreign memories—the life of Elara Isilios, now Vael. Cassian Vael, the Iron Duke, your husband, a man tempered in warfare whose gaze offers no warmth to you or to the twins, Leander and Lyra, who are nine years old and already strangers in their own home. This is the first dawn of your existence as the villainess in this cruel story. And somewhere beyond these stone walls, the true heroine, Selene Morrow, is already spinning her webs. Cassian's o…