He wrote the story. Now, he must live it—as the villain he betrayed.

After sacrificing his complex, fox-eyed antagonist for commercial success, a guilt-ridden author dies at his desk, only to wake up in the body of his own creation: Arsene Adel, the tragic heir of a ruined house. But this isn't the story he remembers writing. He's arrived hours before the disposable knights he himself conceived are sent to murder him.

Armed only with a writer's meta-knowledge of the world's plot and magic system, and the dormant, demonic bloodline of his new identity, he must do the impossible. He must awaken the terrifying power he once only described and survive the night.

And he is no longer f