An off-cycle romantic fantasy about a woman whose gift people try to silence by force, stripping her of power and the right to choose. But the attempt to break the heroine backfires, becoming a point of reckoning: having passed through someone else’s reality and lived another life there, she returns no longer as a victim, but as a person who can not only endure, but also impose her own rules on the world.
The love line is built on a clash of characters: a dangerous man appears beside her, and their bond promises not a calm fairy tale, but an intense confrontation—an interplay of will, attraction, and a hidden threat.
For those who care about momentum: the novel blends romantic and adventure fantasy and touches on a pressing theme of social inequality.
Living in a place where everything is allowed for the lawfully born, while a bastard is assigned the role of outcast in advance, means constantly fighting for the right to breathe. The worst is for gifted women: magic in women’s hands is considered absurd, and the best way to “put her in her place” is to block her gift. My father did exactly that—and didn’t even realize that along with the pain, he gave me a chance: to live in another world as the wife of a maniac, and then return back, different—fearless—so that I can finally arrange my fate the way I want. And none of the local monsters can tell me what to do… unless it’s the dark one—so cruel and dangerous as Eric Manvir. Only his desires don’t match mine. Let’s see who is truly the main villain here.