She dies on an operating table in the twenty-third century—and wakes in a wet coffin beneath a thunderstorm, trapped in the body of a spoiled aristocrat who was murdered that same night. Summer Quinn remembers every betrayal that led to this: a father who bartered a daughter’s heart for status, a husband who smiled while his wife drowned, a stepmother who plotted, and a pregnant wife who never got to cradle her child. There’s one bright, fragile thing left alive: a newborn boy she pulls from his dead mother’s belly. Summer vows she will not leave him to rot under the same roof that produced murderers. She wears Yanran Wei’s face like armor, learns how to play a noble’s part, and accepts an uneasy patronage from Prince Everard (the dangerous “Prince Ning”)—but that patronage comes with a price. She must get stronger, expose the rot, and take everything back. No more victim. This time she will rip out the lies, claim the baby’s future, and make the people who sold lives for advantage pay—interest included.
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