Yn remembers exactly how her story ends: betrayed, condemned, and executed as the villainess of a romance novel. So when her memories of a past life return, she does the only sensible thing—she runs. At seventeen, she abandons her title, her engagement, and her place in the story, fleeing from Seabriar to Oakhaven under the false identity of Lady Élodie Devereux. For three peaceful years, she successfully avoids the novel’s plot and everyone involved in it. Then Archduke Alaric Von Raventhorn arrives. As heir to one of the empire’s most powerful duchies, Alaric is charming, scandalous, and impossible to ignore. Fortunately, he doesn’t recognize Élodie as the fiancée who disappeared before they ever met. Unfortunately, he finds her endlessly fascinating. Now Y/n must survive an archduke who keeps appearing everywhere she goes, a heroine who may be far more dangerous than the story claimed, and a fate that seems determined to drag her back into the plot she escaped. Running from destiny was easy. Running from Alaric is proving impossible.