"I wrote him as a monster... Now I must live as him." Carter, a struggling author, wakes up trapped in the body of Felix von Frederick-the very villain he created for his bestselling dark fantasy series. A spoiled nobleman with a legacy of cruelty, Felix is destined to betray his family, unleash a demonic war, and die a coward's death. But Carter refuses to play his part. Armed with knowledge of the story's future and a mysterious golden eye that whispers of forgotten prophecies, he fights to rewrite Felix's fate. Yet, the world resists his changes. The more he defies the original plot, the more the universe twists back: allies turn suspicious, enemies emerge too soon, and the black-marked cult-a faction he barely fleshed out in his drafts-hunts him as a "false soul." But the hardest challenge? Telling apart his own guilt from Felix's lingering sins... because the line between author and character is blurring. "The greatest story he ever told... was his own curse"