The One Star Review. Second Life, #1

She died at her desk. She woke up inside the webnovel she one-starred - cast as the villainess. The fever explains the memory gaps. Nothing explains why Lady Cassiana Ardent - scheming, doomed, scheduled to die badly before the final chapter - now thinks in spreadsheets, says please to the maids, and knows exactly how this story ends. Because she read it. In her old life. And she gave it one star.
Now she's living in it, and the plot has not forgiven the review. The betrothal keeping her alive is the very engagement the story is built to destroy. The Dowager is taking notes. The heroine is due to arrive on schedule. And somewhere behind the scenery, something keeps quietly correcting the scenes she survives. Her plan is simple: don't be interesting. Interesting people get plots. It's a good plan.
It fails magnificently. THE ONE STAR REVIEW is Book 1 of SECOND LIFE - a complete series in four books. No cliffhangers without a finished shelf behind them: the whole story is written, and it ends. For readers who like their villainesses competent, their dukes dry, their banter armed, and their romance closed-door and slow-burning. Wit, ledgers, and grief handled properly - a comedy that earns its quiet.
For readers who underline. The complete series: The One Star Review · Draft Two · Wintermark · The Author's Draft.