Second Life

A complete four-book villainess romantasy series

June spent her life exhausted, overlooked, and hate-reading a trashy romance novel on her commute. Then she died at her desk — and woke up inside the book. Not as the heroine. As Lady Cassiana Ardent: the villainess, the schemer, the woman the story has already scheduled to die in disgrace so the "real" couple can live happily ever after.

June has read this book. She knows exactly how her character is supposed to end.

She has no intention of cooperating.

What begins as one woman's fight to dodge her own scripted downfall becomes something stranger and bigger with every book — a love story with the Duke she was written to be destroyed by, a found family of characters who were never supposed to matter, and a slow, dawning understanding that someone, somewhere, is still holding the pen. Second Life is a comedy about second chances, a romance about being chosen instead of written, and a story about what it takes to reach the last page of a book that refuses to end.

The complete series — all four books, one finished story. Start free, and binge to the end.

Reading order:

  1. Second Life
  2. Second Life: The Author's Hand
  3. Second Life: The Other Reader
  4. Second Life: The Last Draft

Second Life

From the series: Second Life

She read the novel. She hated the novel. Now she’s trapped inside it — as the villainess who dies in Chapter 47.

June spent her whole life being responsible, right up until the night she died face-down at her desk, hate-reading a trashy webnovel she couldn’t stop scrolling. Then she woke up inside it.

Worse — she woke up as Lady Cassiana Ardent:...

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Second Life: The Author’s Hand

From the series: Second Life

June beat the book.

She was supposed to die in Chapter Forty-Seven — the wicked villainess of a trashy romance novel, marched to the scaffold while the cold Duke looked on. Instead she rewrote the ending, kept the Duke, and walked out of her own execution holding a pen that can edit the world one sentence at a time.

That, it turns out, was the...

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Second Life: The Other Reader: A Villainess Romantasy

From the series: Second Life

She rewrote her own death. She thought that made her the only author in the building. She was wrong.

June has spent four months out-writing the trashy romance novel she died into — clawing back a life that was never written for her, one stubborn warm sentence at a time, and falling for a cold duke the story keeps trying to turn back into its...

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Second Life: The Last Draft: A Villainess Romantasy

From the series: Second Life

She survived her story. She rewrote it. Now she’s leaving it — to face the hand that wrote them all.

June died at her desk and woke inside a trashy romance novel as the villainess scheduled to die in chapter forty. Three books later, she has out-written her death, married the man the story said could never love her, and made every person in her...

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