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The Heroine’s Shadow: Beneath the Veil of the Tale

Lady_Samie19
Violetta, a devoted lover of literature, believed she knew Angela’s Smile by heart—her favorite novel down to the last page. But when a cruel fate reincarnates her within its world, she finds neither the magic nor the radiant heroine she once adored. She awakens as Vidalia, the erased and insignificant half-sister of the original story, reduced to a shadow—and Angela’s magical slave. Bound by a contract she can break only through death, Vidalia lives a double life behind the veil that conceals her face. In the shadows of courtly intrigue, she uncovers buried truths about her mother, inadvertently draws the attention of the novel’s protagonists, and forms an unlikely bond with Camélia—the former antagonist destined for a tragic end. Slowly, the story she believed to be immutable begins to veer off its course… But it is her encounter with Arzhel—a feared and mesmerizing mage—that truly shatters her existence. Sarcastic and dangerous, unstable and willing to burn the world to ashes for her, he becomes her ally, her obsession, and her damnation. Torn between consuming passion and invisible chains, Vidalia must choose: submit to her role as a sacrificial extra… or write her own ending, even if it means embracing the darkness. A dark fantasy romance where reincarnation, politics, and forbidden passions intertwine within a suffocating Victorian-inspired world of secrets and unspoken desires. (WATTPAD : Lady Sam19)
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