The Stone Thrown in the Lake

The world knows her as a villain—a queen whose name is spoken with fear and contempt. Yet behind her infamous reputation lies a single, unwavering devotion: her brother. Every scheme she wove, every sin she carried, every sacrifice she endured, she made for his sake, giving up everything she had for the one person she loved most. Her reward is betrayal. The devotion that defined her life becomes the very thing that breaks it, and her story ends in ruin. But fate is not finished with her. She opens her eyes to find herself in the past—returned to a time before her name was stained, before her choices hardened into destiny, when the future still lay open before her. Given this second chance, she is determined to right the wrongs of her former life. Yet to escape the fate that once consumed her, she must confront the tangled web of love and family that ensnared her the first time—the very bonds that both comforted and destroyed her—and decide, with full knowledge of how her story once ended, whether they can be saved at all.