The Readymade Queen

When her family's estate collapses into ruin, Abigail Dilloa is condemned to a life of servitude, tasked with attending to an imprisoned princess. Just as she begins to accept her bleak reality, assassins brutally murder the gentle royal she was sworn to protect. Facing imminent death herself, Abigail’s deepest regrets flash before her eyes until Duke Lakiel de Edelgard intervenes at the final moment, pulling her from the brink. Yet salvation comes at a steep price. Driven by a thirst for vengeance, the calculating duke presents Abigail with a ruthless ultimatum: perish alongside the princess, or assume Princess Violeta’s identity to serve his dark ambitions within the royal succession. With no other path to survival, Abigail steps into the role of a living puppet, thrust into a dangerous political theater where one misstep means certain doom. Now bound to the duke's sinister scheme, she must navigate the treacherous currents of palace intrigue and convince an entire kingdom that she is royalty. As she fights to maintain her fabricated identity and seize the throne, Abigail faces a harrowing question: can she successfully deceive the world, or will the merciless machinations of the court strip away her disguise and reveal the fraud beneath? Based on the hit novel.