Borrowed Time with the Blind Duke

Oriana Perez spent her final days in a hospital bed, abandoned by everyone she thought cared about her. When cancer finally took her, she expected nothing — not even an afterlife.

Instead, she woke up inside the body of Priscilla Van, the villainess of the novel she'd been reading to pass the time. The same woman who'd broken her engagement with the blind Duke Ender Hall and left him at his lowest point. The same woman everyone in the story despised.

Now trapped in a world of magic and nobility, Oriana has no powers, no allies, and a reputation in ruins. But she does have one advantage: she knows how the story ends. And she refuses to follow the script.

Her first order of business? Fix things with the duke she was supposed to have destroyed. But Ender Hall is nothing like the cold, distant character from the pages. Behind the bandage over his eyes hides the kingdom's most powerful mage — a man carrying wounds far deeper than blindness, and far more dangerous secrets than anyone suspects.

As Oriana builds a new life from scratch — opening a pastry shop, earning the trust of a fierce employee named Lara, and reconnecting with the father Priscilla never appreciated — she finds herself falling for the very man she was meant to betray.

But the novel's villains are still out there. And some of them have already noticed that Priscilla Van is no longer the woman she used to be.

In a world where magic can see through lies and the powerful answer to no one, Oriana will have to fight for a future that was never written for her — and prove that a borrowed life can still be worth living.

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