Naega Jukgo Modeun Ge Byeonhaessda

Death is not always an ending. For Deborah, it is a disorienting beginning—one that finds her waking in the body of her sister, Irene. Instead of the quiet oblivion she expected, she inherits a life already teetering on the edge of ruin. Irene has been charged with murder, and the noose of guilt tightens with each passing day. Refusing to let her sister's name be dragged through the mud or her future be stolen by a crime she did not commit, Deborah makes a desperate resolution: she will inhabit this borrowed flesh, navigate a world that now sees her as a stranger, and hunt down the truth that lies buried beneath layers of deception. Yet the road to exoneration is fraught with more than just hidden clues and palace whispers. Standing squarely in her path are three men, each wielding his own brand of obstruction. There is Abel, her cold and calculating stepbrother, whose motives remain as opaque as his loyalties. There is Henry, her former fiancé, whose wounded pride and lingering resentment make him a volatile obstacle. And then there is Duke Lahan, an unyielding presence whose relentless pursuit of Irene complicates every move Deborah makes. With the hangman's shadow creeping ever closer and these formidable adversaries scrutinizing her every step, Deborah must race to untangle a deadly conspiracy—all while protecting a sister she cannot reach and living a life that was never meant to be hers.