Second Life: The Author's Draft

She survived her story. She rewrote it. Now she's leaving it — to face the hand that wrote them all.June died at her desk and woke inside a trashy romance novel as the villainess scheduled to die in chapter forty. Three books later, she has out-written her death, married the man the story said could never love her, and made every person in her book real.She should be safe. But someone has been setting an extra place at her table — and the cold that has hunted her across three books is coming from inside her own walls.So June does the one thing no reader is supposed to do: she steps off her last page, onto the shelf itself — a corridor of a thousand books, every one written by the same hand. The Author. The thing that reverts husbands, schedules deaths, and answers every defiance with a single word: YET.With an ex-enemy at her side and a red thread tied to home, June goes hunting. But the shelf keeps its own secrets: a book that has somehow been finished. A reader who walked out of it and vanished. And a question with teeth — what does it cost to end a story that refuses, with everything it has, to let anything end?The final book of the Second Life series. A metafictional romantasy about grief, second chances, and the courage it takes to reach a last page. Every story gets one. Even this one.