LOTM: Before the Protagonist

Jake, an 18-year-old first-year medical student, wakes up in the body of Jace Liebert—a shy, brilliant 16-year-old scraping by in Cherwood Borough, Backlund—four years before the Fool's arrival. No grand system. No gray fog. Just the shock of realizing he's inside Lord of the Mysteries, the novel he once read obsessively. He decides to follow the Seer pathway and live with his head down. That is until a thought of stealing Safira Castle froms in his Mind But unexpectedly, his careful path veers into a very different world. Beautiful and dangerous women—witches, scholars, mysterious heiresses—who are drawn to the quiet boy who knows things he shouldn't. Pleasure and power tangle together, pulling him deeper with every accidental encounter. What began as cautious survival becomes indulgence he never planned for. And in a world ruled by gods and madness, even unintended temptation can lead straight to the abyss… or to something far greater. R18 – Explicit smut, mature romance, dark themes.