Waking inside a dark romance novel, modernday Elena finds herself trapped in the body of the doomed villainess, marked for death at the grand ball. Rejecting her fatal fate, she abandons chasing the cold hero and builds a scrappy cookieselling business to pay off crushing family debt. But her bold defiance draws the obsessive villain’s dangerous gaze, and tangled romantic tensions with the male leader ignite as she fights to rewrite her own brutal story.