"Tie her up in silver chains. Kill the traitor."Those were the last words Selena Ashwood heard from her soulmate, Alpha King Kael Blackthorne. In front of thousands of people, the man she loved in secret called her a monster and watched her die.But Selena does not stay dead.She wakes up three years in the past. It is a few months before the big ceremony that ruined her life the first time. She remembers everything perfectly and her heart is cold. She promises to do two things: show everyone that the prophecy is a lie, and never fall in love with the Executioner King again.To stay alive, she stops being shy. She becomes brave, smart, and strong. But her new attitude does not push Kael away. Instead, it makes him obsessed with her.As the kingdoms start to fight, Kael traps her against the wall. His eyes are dark and he feels a need to possess her that he cannot explain. He asks, "Why do you look at me like I am the man who kills you, Selena?"Selena wants revenge. Kael wants to know the truth. But then, Kael starts having bad dreams about a past life where he holds her dead body. Soon, the line between being enemies and being soulmates disappears. Can she trust the man who killed her before, or will the past happen all over again?CHARACTER ROSTERSelena Ashwood (FL, 22) — Ashmoor noble, Luna candidate. Silver-grey eyes, quiet elegance people underestimate. Gift: near-perfect memory — she forgets nothing, which becomes her weapon after rebirth. Wound: a lifetime spent earning love from people who only valued her usefulness. Fear: abandonment. Arc: needs validation → learns independence → chooses herself first.Alpha Kael Blackthorne (ML, 28) — King of Blackthorn, "The Executioner King." Cold, controlled, ten moves ahead. Wound: his sister died because he once trusted the wrong person; he never forgave himself. Fear: failing his people again. Arc: believes sacrifice is necessary → learns trust → learns some lives can't be treated as chess pieces. Secret: he never wanted Selena dead, and he's starting to remember the first timeline.Elder Lucien (Villain) — Selena's mentor and the kingdom's beloved historian. Kind face, gentle voice, looks harmless. Reality: the patient architect of everything — he altered the prophecy and engineered the war and the execution.Lyra Stormborn (2nd FL) — Princess of Stormfang. Bold, impulsive, funny. Starts as Selena's rival, becomes her fiercest ally. Provides chaos and heart.Rowan Vale (2nd ML) — Commander of the royal guard. Kind, reliable, the "safer" choice readers will root for. Secret: unknowingly working for Lucien.

She took a bullet for this family.Not figuratively. She stood in front of danger, bled for them, and called it love.Then one day, her daughter climbed into her lap and asked why Daddy's other woman felt more like Mommy.The other woman was her sister.Her husband didn't deny it. He looked her in the eye — the woman who had built him from nothing, who had sacrificed everything to make him the man he was, and told her he had never loved her. That it was always her sister. That she should learn to accept it.Her family rooted for this shameless pair, casting her aside.She stood there watching her husband, her sister, and her daughter laugh together like a picture she had been cropped out of. There was no place for her in that home. No place for her anywhere.And she was dying. One year, was all she had left.So she stopped wasting it. She walked away and she was done playing nice.She became the woman nobody saw coming - top fashion designer to the world's biggest celebrities, a business empire built in silence, a name that made powerful men nervous.And then there was Adrian. Her husband's greatest rival. A surgeon just as brilliant, twice as dangerous, and the only man who had ever looked at her like she was worth the world.Revenge was never sweeter than when they were all watching.