She crawled into the wrong story—and straight into a death sentence. Wren Ash was an overworked college student celebrating a zero-percent plagiarism score when her heart stopped. She woke up not on her kitchen floor, but inside the dark fantasy novel she’d binged days before—trapped in the body of Ivy Ash, the cruel villainess fated to die by the sword of Rhys Darrow, the story’s broken, tormented secondary lead. A glitched system gives her one rule: play the villain, torment him, and meet her written end to return home. Refuse the script, and face a fate worse than death. But Wren refuses to follow the lines. Instead of breaking Rhys, she patches his wounds, defies her ruthless brother to protect him, and bargains her way onto a journey to the legendary Unbound trials—brutal once-in-a-generation magical tests that could grant them both escape from the city of Greymoor… if they survive the road there. As they outrun shape-shifting demons, navigate cursed ice caves, and claw through trials designed to break every candidate, Wren discovers the man she was taught to fear holds far more secrets than the book ever revealed. And with every stubborn choice to be kind to him, she rewrites a story no one was ever supposed to change.