In a world where strange supernatural occurrences have become normal, a person’s grip on reality can only stretch so far. Eventually, belief becomes the only truth one can rely on. But Astor is a scientist, a man who spent his life studying those very abnormalities. To him, fiction, fantasy, and reality have boundaries that neither belief nor overwhelming power should be able to break. Yet with his growing overconfidence slowly developing into something resembling a God complex, even those boundaries are beginning to mean less. Then Astor dies and wakes inside the dead body of Victor, an insignificant character from a novel whose death happened off-page and was reduced to little more than a mention. Victor was never supposed to matter. His past was unknown, his actions unexplained, and even his death seemed meaningless. At least, that was what Astor believed. The bigger problem was that Astor had never actually read the novel. He didn’t even like novels. Most of what he knew came from hearing about it and the little information he had seen about its characters, which wasn’t much to begin with. While still refusing to completely accept the impossible reality in front of him, Astor tries to find a rational explanation for what happened to him. But being alive again doesn’t mean he is safe. Victor left behind enemies, debts, mysteries, and consequences that Astor knows nothing about, and now all of them belong to him. The more Astor tries to survive, the more he realizes that the person whose body he inherited doesn’t make sense. For someone who was supposed to be nothing more than an insignificant character, far too many people seem interested in Victor, and some are willing to kill for things Astor doesn’t even know exist. With death closing in again, Astor searches for meaning in the second life he never asked for and for possibilities within the chance he was given. But the longer he survives and the deeper he digs into Victor’s forgotten past, the harder it becomes to believe that Victor was ever as insignificant as the story made him seem. If Victor was truly nothing more than an NPC who died off-page, why is his forgotten past important enough to get Astor killed over and over again, and just how much could the existence of someone who was never supposed to matter change the world around him?