The Possessed Villainess Wreaks Havoc

Bella, the demon monarch who reigns over the underworld, never expected to open her eyes in a human body—least of all that of Isabella Dunkeld, a noblewoman despised by her own family and condemned by everyone around her as a villainess. Worse still, she has no memory of ever striking a contract with the human whose form she now inhabits, and every trace of her demonic power lies sealed away. Powerless and stranded in an unfamiliar world, Bella resolves to do the only thing she can: play the part of an ordinary "human" until she can uncover how she ended up like this. But passing as human proves far more bewildering than she anticipated. When she demands to know how many people these hands have killed—hundreds? thousands?—the answer leaves her utterly dumbfounded: the original Isabella never took a single life. How does a woman with such clean hands come to be branded a villainess at all? Caught between an unearned reputation and a species she cannot begin to comprehend, the demon Bella can only reach one conclusion—humans are truly difficult creatures to understand.