Long Live Evil (Time of Iron Book 1)

She's dying in the real world — and somehow, miraculously, she's woken up as the villain.

Emer knows how her story ends. Terminal illness has a way of making the future feel very small. But when she finds herself inhabiting the body of Lady Iseult — the cold, calculating antagonist of her favorite fantasy series — she realizes she's been handed something extraordinary: more time. All she has to do is survive inside a story that's already decided she's the one who loses.

The problem is the hero. Golden, infuriatingly principled, burning with righteous fury whenever he looks at her — he's everything Emer, as a reader, always admired. As his enemy, she's everything he despises. Their confrontations crackle with the particular electricity of two people who see each other far too clearly, and the closer they get to the story's predetermined ending, the more dangerous that clarity becomes.

Because Emer starts to wonder: what if the villain's perspective changes everything? What if the hero she's wor